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TIL phytoplankton account for half of the world’s supply of oxygen

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49XN TIL that the hotel that inspired Stephen King to write “The Shining” plays the Kubrick film on continuous loop on channel 42 for all guests.
X0746 TIL actor Stephen Baldwin has a tattoo of the initials HM for Hannah Montana. He got it after making a pact with Miley Cyrus that he could cameo on the show if he did it. He showed it to Cyrus, but he was never given the opportunity to cameo and has since said that he regrets the tattoo.
KOm6w TIL 7,500 B.C. Nabta Playa in Africa is the World's First Astronomical Site, which Tracked the Summer Solstice & Arrival of Monsoon Season
loMkK TIL that Manhattan Project nuclear physicist Alvin Weinberg was fired from his job for continually advocating for a safer and less weaponizable nuclear reactor using Thorium, one that has no chance of a meltdown.
yQRnM TIL David A Cox and Steven Zucker published an algorithm called the "Cox-Zucker machine". They collaborated deliberately because of their name combination, with Cox saying thay they decided to write a paper together just weeks after they met.