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TIL that 2 million discarded tires were deliberately dumped off the coast of Florida in the 1970’s, with the intent to stimulate growth of new coral reefs. Instead, the tires ended up killing off nearby reefs. The tires are still causing damage today.

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nWnP7 TIL that Djibouti, a small country with less than a million people, hosts military bases from the US, China, Japan, France and Italy. Due to its strategic position at the mouth of the Red Sea, leases from foreign military bases make up 5% of its economy.
D6yD TIL President Carter’s son and Willie Nelson got high together on the roof of the White House.
m7EM TIL Marilyn Monroe was really good friends with Ella Fitzgerald. Monroe was instrumental in getting Ella past racial barriers to perform and they stayed friend till death.
Z8kv4 TIL that skateboarding was banned in Norway from 1977 to 1989
Ax7g TIL that a star was discovered whose center is an enormous diamond, of 10 billion trillion trillion carats; astronomers called the diamond star “Lucy”