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Today I learned how to say "my hovercraft is full of eels" in Latvian.

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XxA6 TIL that the certificate behind Michael Scott in The Office is not a degree/diploma, but a certificate of authenticity for a counterfeit “Seyko” timepiece.
9YjlD TIL that the Gulf of Mexico has a dead zone: an area of hypoxic (less than 2 ppm dissolved oxygen) waters, which supports fewer organisms and has been linked to massive fish kills and can cover up to 6,000-7,000 square miles (9656-11265 square kilometers) at the mouth of the Mississippi River
Y7Y5B TIL that last year the tallest mountain in Colorado was renamed Mount Blue Sky (from Mount Evans)
xV4Lb TIL that the person Crocodile Dundee was based on, died in a shootout with police in 1999.
gMgNA TIL of the SS Richard Montgomery: a US WWII ship carrying munitions, grounded 2.4km from Sheerness, UK in 1944, and broken in two by the weight of the bombs on board. An estimated 1,400 tonnes of explosives remain on board the ship. It is monitored constantly & protected by a 500m exclusion zone.