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TIL there are more than three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor.

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5YQ9B TIL of the "Green Book" which was a travel guide for black people published up until 1966 that gave locations on safe stops and routes for travel in the U.S.
Xde6 TIL that in 1915, scam artist Charles Hatfield convinced the town of San Diego that he could create rainfall using a secret mix of chemicals. The city offered to pay him $10,000 if he could end their drought, and the ‘result,’ a few days later, was the town’s worst flood of the 20th century.
4g7b TIL that German chocolate cake isn’t German; it’s named after an American chocolate maker named Sam German who developed the dark chocolate originally used in the recipe.
xXob TIL Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara had only 1 female guerrilla fighter - and she was a radio host that provided encoded information live on-air through relationship advice to fictitious lovelorn couples.
bNBa TIL there’s a school that train people with autism to become visual effects artists. Their credits include Captain America, Avengers and Game of Thrones.