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TIL there is a reservoir’ three times the volume of all the oceans towards Earths core

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vn6R TIL the hole in the ozone layer is expected to be completely healed by 2050 thanks to the Montreal Protocol signed in 1987, limiting the use of CFC’s
gMbaA TIL that the @ symbol has been in use since the 1500s as an accounting abbreviation for "at the rate of". As in “12 widgets @ $1.” (The total would be $12, $1 each).
WkNGY TIL Richard Harris was so drunk through the 1970s that he forgot he owned a Rolls Royce. It sat in a New York garage for 25 years before he found an old photo of himself with it and his accountant confirmed it was still there running up $90k in garage storage costs.
oR9o7 TIL that Karl Marx earned 400 pounds from trading on the London Stock Exchange
Lk6RP TIL Oliver Stone’s original story for Platoon was called Break, based on his own experiences in the Vietnam War and set to music from The Doors. He sent the script to Jim Morrison hoping he would play the lead. Morrison never responded but he did have the script with him when he died in Paris.