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TIL the Trieste, the submersible that took Jaques Picard to the deepest point in the ocean, used 106,000 litres (28,000 gallons) of gasoline for buoyancy.

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p1Mb TIL that evidence suggests Neanderthals used boats before modern humans
kJxRg TIL Roller Coasters were invented in 1884 to save Americans from Satanic temptations, following the uprise of saloons and brothels.
xVVEk TIL Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida covers 40 Square miles, the same size as San Francisco. In 1963, Disney paid prices as low as $180 per acre for the land, buying under psuedo corporations. When sellers heard it was Disney buying the land, prices escalated as high as $80,000 per acre.
b9GW0 TIL about Marshall McLuhan who predicted the internet 30 years before it was invented.
8aPoG TIL - The "Thagomizer", the spiked tail on a stegosaurid dinosaur, didn't have an official name till the cartoonist Gary Larson did a comic about it, named it, and the scientific community just accepted it and started using it too.