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TIL that America consumes 100 acres of pizza per day.
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TIL that French Bulldogs cannot swim because their flat snouts and top-heavy bodies make it hard to keep their heads above water. If you insist on having a swimming Frenchie, you can buy a tiny lifejacket for them---but be sure to supervise them at all times.
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TIL that the Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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TIL that there is a punctuation mark for sarcasm. Introduced in 2010, the "SarcMark" looks like a reversed 6 with a dot in the middle. It is used just like the question mark or exclamation mark, except this mark indicates irony or sarcasm. However, anyone hoping to use it must pay $1.99 (£1.20).
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TIL in 1715, a Spanish treasure fleet loaded with gold and silver was sunk by a hurricane off the coast of Florida. Divers over time have found coins scattered near the wreck, with a 2015 dive netting $4.5 million.
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TIL Hundred Islands National Park, Phillipines, has 124 islands at low tide but only three of them have been developed for tourism: Governor Island, Quezon Island, and Children's Island. The peculiar "mushroom-like" shapes of some of the islands were caused by the eroding action of ocean waves