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TIL that there were so many sea turtles in the Caribbean Sea when Christopher Columbus arrived that his crew was kept awake at night by the sound of the turtles banging against the hulls of the ships.

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OONR TIL that the cars in Oprah’s famous car giveaway back in 2004 were actually donated by General Motors and weren’t from Oprah herself
gMOdW TIL sheep shearing is not animal cruelty. If sheep are not sheared they can experience a lot of health problems. There was a sheep in Australia that was found unsheared for six years, five time the wool of normal sheep, with damaged hooves and skin infections from urine trapped under his wool.
ry0W TIL that despite the fact that it is widely believed that 25% to 40% of bottled water is simply bottled tap water, people spend from 240 to over 10,000 times more per gallon for bottled water than they typically do for tap water.
14e7 TIL Nazi Germany produced Chlorine Trifluoride for use as a dual purpose incendiary and poison gas in WW2. ClF3 causes almost anything to spontaneously explode on contact, including wood, concrete, sand, gravel, glass, asbestos, water, and of course flesh.
57XB TIL there is a face cream that is 2,000 years old which was found with the finger marks of its last user