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TIL Half of Earth's oxygen comes from the ocean and not from trees, mainly from phytoplankton.

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BDVk TIL That the Soviet Union unknowingly sold Titanium to CIA dummy companies that was used in the creation of the A-12 Cygnus (Predecessor to the SR71 Black Bird) that was being built to spy on the Soviet Union
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