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TIL Leonardo Di Caprio flew in a private jet from Cannes to the US to collect an environmental award

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GA7LN TIL that barnacles were a major problem to old ships and that the 18th-century British Navy gained a great advantage by covering their ships' hulls with copper to stop the barnacles from growing.
ADE0o TIL that the 4.6 billion streams of "Despacito" used as much electricity as the combined annual electricity consumption of Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Somalia, Sierra Leone and the Central African Republic.
LkarV TIL of Lord Timothy Dexter, an illiterate gold digger con man who fell backwards into piles of money despite being a complete idiot who made the worst investments ever that paid off by pure dumb luck.
roWw TIL that, in medieval Europe, scales were used to weigh suspected witches to determine whether or not they should be burned at the stake
7rdbX TIL of the time footballer (later manager) Mark Hughes played in two matches, in two separate countries, on the same day. In November 1987, he played for Wales against Czechoslovakia in Prague. After the game he was quickly flown to Germany where he came on as a substitute for Bayern Munich.