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TIL about ShipGoo001, novel bacteria and archaea, accidentally found in the rudder housing of a research ship.

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R5Y8a TIL Danny DeVito directed a horror film starring William Fichtner and the late Lance Reddick entitled "St. Sebastian". Completed in 2012, it has never been released and is currently DeVito's last feature film directing credit.
aWgL TIL before establishing KFC, Colonel Sanders worked at a gas station and got into a gunfight with a rival gas station manager.
vPvXL TIL that the process to make boxed macaroni and cheese was started by a Canadian named, Kraft.
wo0oM TIL The mass of trees and plants comes mostly (95%) from carbon in the air, not from the soil. Through photosynthesis they extract carbon from CO2 and use it to build their structure and mass.
Br7Od TIL that English used to have a letter for "th", called thorn. That letter was shorthanded to y, therefore "ye olde shoppe"