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TIL that the Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest ocean (average depth: 4,280m (14,040ft)), covering approximately 32% of the Earth's surface and about 46% of its water surface. Its area is around 165 million km² (63.8 million square miles), which is larger than all landmasses combined

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OoLmX TIL: An extinct bird came back from the dead. The white-throated rail was flightless and got completely wiped out when the island sunk below the sea around 136,000 years ago. But, the same bird re-appeared when sea levels fell again a few thousand years later, and again lost the ability to fly.
PYEkZ TIL that in the 1800s, Thanksgiving was basically Halloween. Poor people would knock on doors to ak “anything for Thanksgiving?” and rich kids went out dressed in rags to mock them, up until the Great Depression when the question was always answered with NO.
XEKer TIL when Radovan Karadžić went into hiding, he became Dr. Dabić. He lost 20 kilos. He grew a long white beard, changed his accent and was living in the open and working as a healer. He even went on TV shows without anyone knowing that he was the most wanted war criminal from the former Yugoslavia
lolVV TIL that because Beethoven was so respected, but also irritable, the Archduke Rudolph decreed that the usual rules of court etiquette did not apply to him.
wLn7M TIL Whales will defecate to defend themselves, creating a "poopnado" by evacuating for several minutes and bobbing up and down and splashing its tail around in the waste