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TIL we have only discovered around 10% of the creatures living in the ocean.

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rR8My TIL before he broke the racial barrier in baseball, Jackie Robinson was court-martialed for standing up against racism in the US military.
loLKA TIL singer Connie Francis was Italian-American, her real name was Concetta Franconero.
nnwY TIL Paul McCartney earns $400,000 a year off his Christmas song, which is widely regarded as the worst song he ever recorded.
Z8BnB TIL When Apollo 12 deliberately crashed the Ascent Stage of its Lunar Module onto the Moon's surface, NASA reported that the Moon rang like a bell for almost an hour, leading to arguments that it must be hollow like a bell.
GXoJ TIL that Kim Peek, the inspiration for the movie Rain Man, was a savant born with significant brain damage who has read over 12,000 books and remembers everything he’s read in them. He reads two pages at once, one with each eye, and remembers it all.