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TIL Texas Chainsaw Massacre was based on a true story of ed gein, he would dig up bodies from graves and would make furniture out of their skin and would make anything out of their body parts.

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neM07 TIL of Wayne "Buck" Shelford, a NZ rugby player who lost four teeth and had a testicle pop out of his scrotum during a match against France. After asking the doctor to stitch him up he returned to the match where he later sustained a concussion. To this day he has no recollection of the events.
rr7e TIL There’s a full-scale replica of the statue of liberty in pieces around NYC
oBaXo TIL that 900 year old African coins were found of the coast of Australia, making them the oldest foreign artefacts found on the continent, predating the Europeans by centuries.
nWvxW TIL that Mineral Weathering (the breakdown of natural Basalt rock) can capture/remove CO2 from the atmosphere for thousands of years.
JY8j1 TIL Viruses kill about 25-30% of the living material in the oceans every day. When they infect and kill organisms, nutrients such as carbon and phosphorous are released into the ocean. This keeps microbes and phytoplankton thriving. If you take the viruses out of seawater, photosynthesis stops