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TIL scientists are working on extracting minerals and electrolytes from the deep ocean.

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eDOb TIL that for its first few seasons, SNL was just named “Saturday Night” due to the existence of another show called “Saturday Night Live.” Hence, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night” rather than a variation that uses the show’s full name.
o9OE TIL a man was only sentenced to five years probation for killing the man who kidnapped and molested his 11-year old son.
6ELGW TIL a gallon of gas typically costs no more than a few pennies in Venezuela.
OoBN4 TIL That the equals sign ( = ) was invented in 1557 after Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde got tired of having to write "is equal to" over and over again.
9wR4X TIL in 1998 there were 153 jingles in a sample of 1,279 national commercials; by 2011, the number of jingles had dropped to 8 jingles out of 306 commercials. The once popular jingle has increasingly been replaced by advertisers with a mixture of older & recent pop music to make commercials memorable