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TIL that the Goodwin Sands (A sandbank that lies off the East coast of England) is home to more than 2,000 shipwrecks.

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rNm6y TIL that the oldest known reference to crisps (potato chips) dates to 1817, when an Englishman named William Kitchiner included them in his book 'The Cook's Oracle'
GY5mN TIL the closest living relatives of hippos are cetaceans, which includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.
woO51 TIL that before trees took over, the earth was populated by a giant species of fungus called Prototaxites, which could grow up to 24 feet or 8 metres.
a8MpM TiL there is a chain of over 20 extinct volcanos off the coast of Massachusetts
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