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TIL that Phytoplanktons are the lungs of our mother Earth producing about 2/3rd of the Earth's atmospheric oxygen.

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X0gX TIL that kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
Br5ne TIL Alberta has no rats due to serious rat control policies, including a $5000 fine for having a rat. In 2004 someone released 38 rats in Calgary but by the time the rat control officers arrived the local residents had already formed an armed posse and hunted them down with brooms, 2x4s, and shovels
X04J6 TIL The average life span of a pet cat has risen from seven years in the early 1980s to fifteen years as of 2021.
WkQKo TIL that since American baby names' popularity started to be recorded in 1880, only one girls' name has remained around the top 25: Elizabeth. It reached a high of #3 in 1887, low of #26 in 1948, and was the 17th most popular girls' name in 2017.
aRJy TIL in 1949 BB King re-entered a burning music hall to save his favorite $30 Gibson guitar. King later learned the fire was started when two men knocked over a burning barrel of kerosene while fighting over a woman named Lucille. King has named every guitar he’s owned Lucille as a reminder.