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TIL New Zealand is part of a vast submerged continent known to scientists as Zealandia.

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Z8JMD TIL The luftwaffe planted buoys in the english channel for downed pilots to survive in, containing food, alcohol, clothing and games.
AvJg TIL the state vegetable of Oklahoma is watermelon… which is a fruit.
5kBD TIL Fred Willard is the first (and so far, only) actor to appear as a live-action character in a Pixar movie. He plays Shelby Forthright, CEO of Buy and Large, in an archive video shown in the movie “WALL-E”.
negOY TIL that cats can't taste sweet things because of a genetic defect.
mvRM TIL: In 1863, President Lincoln signed the “Order of Retaliation”. For every US soldier killed or enslaved in violation of the laws of war, a Confederate prisoner was to be killed or enslaved.