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TIL 50 to 85 percent of oxygen on Earth comes from the ocean, mainly from phytoplankton.

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9RYQ TIL That Canada is the only host nation in the history of the games not to win a gold medal in their own Summer Olympic Games (Montreal 1976)
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78a6Z TIL that Fahrenheit 451, a book about a distopian future where books are banned and burned, was banned and burned by the apartheid regime in South Africa with other tens of thousands.
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