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TIL there is something called a sea potato, a relative of the sea urchin that looks like a cross between a coconut and a hamster.

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9wvMM TIL Brazil is, by far, the country that takes the most showers. On average, a Brazilian showers every 12 hours.
GYlW5 TIL carbon dating is useless to date anything after 1950 and will be useless for the forseeable future because of the amount of change in carbon-14 levels from human nuclear weapons detonations.
769M TIL in 1999 a French Holocaust survivor reduced Shell Oil’s accident rate 84 percent by making oil rig workers talk about their feelings
1a57X TIL that in Kenya, elephant poop is being used to make paper. Elephants poop up to 50 kg a day which can produce 125 sheets of paper.
e0BaD TIL Microsoft tried to monopolize the early web browser market by making it difficult to install other web browsers and slowing down Windows if Internet Explorer was uninstalled.