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

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OGMaL TIL Orcas are dolphins
x6aQ0 TIL that the Convair Model 118, a tentative flying car from 1947, was shelved because its prototype crashed when a test pilot mixed up the flight engine's fuel gauge with the road engine's and didn't see the former run out. While he survived, this killed interest in the project.
ZRyo TIL Steven Spielberg declined to direct the Harry Potter movies because they weren’t challenging, and he thought they should have been animated
W7Oe9 TIL that Tyrannosaurus lived 66 million years ago. Stegosaurus lived 145 million years ago. We are closer in time to Tyrannosaurus than Tyrannosaurus is to Stegosaurus.
dE1Z TIL that Guy Fieri didn’t register his Times Square Restaurant’s domain, so a random person bought it and made a fake website.