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TIL: Youtube has a charts page which is virtually inaccessible through the front page.

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VM97k TIL a field of seagrass converts carbon dioxide to oxygen at over 8x the rate of a forest the same size.
p8rZp TIL the video game industry generates more revenue than the film and music industry combined
aK10 TIL that when communicating about floral resources bees on cocaine like to talk more and also tend to exaggerate how much was actually there in the first place.
GAKg5 TIL that male Ohio residents have to pay out-of-state tuition fees at Ohio universities if they aren’t registered with Selective Service, and some states like Alabama and Tennessee won’t admit men into state colleges at all if they haven’t registered.
6EwKW TIL: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, designed by the “Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons,” so isolated prisoners that many went insane. (The 1829 castle-like complex did have better comforts than period prisons --like dependable heat. Shut: 1971, ruin-park since '94.)