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TIL that the Parrot fish eat coral and poop sand and are responsible for many of the islands and beaches of the Caribbean.

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yGoa TIL that cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev has traveled 0.02 seconds into the future. The theory of relativity states that time will slow down for an object as its velocity increases. By orbiting at 27,360 km/h for 747 days aboard the Mir space station, Avdeyev aged 0.02 seconds less than people on Earth.
p8mDN TIL - A study performed at the University of Plymouth wanted to test the claim that an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters would create the works Shakespeare. They got funding for six monkeys for one month. They produced five pages of text which consisted mainly of the letter "s".
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