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TIL Less than one percent of the worlds shipwrecks have been discovered with an estimated 3 million ships lying on the ocean floor.

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WkwnL TIL The US government imposed a livestock reduction on the Navajo in the 1930s. They bulldozed trenches,herded sheep and goats into them, coated them in flammable liquid, and burned them alive. They were promised land expansion that never materialized. From the memoir of Chester Nez, Code Talker.
v1ZE4 TIL that people can die from simply giving up on life. Senior research John Leach said “give-up-itis” can kill in just three weeks without help.
epaA4 TIL Teresa Fidalgo, a famous internet ghost, was originally just a creation of a movie from Portugal
BrnPk TIL that Denise Rossi, who won 1.3$ millions in lottery and 11 days later went on to divorce her husband so that she wouldn't have to share her money, had to give all of the winnings to her Husband ultimately, because she didn't disclosed her assets beforehand.
Zpaa4 TIL: About a company that is genetically engineering poplar trees (already fast-growing, asexually spreading trees) to reduce their energy needs by adding metabolic genes from pumpkins and algae. The engineered trees grow 1.5x than controls. They've planted 600 trees in Oregon and plan to do more.