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TIL Algae produces most of the world’s oxygen

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D1jEj TIL characters that are without anymore money in (older) cartoons wear nothing but a barrel, actually stems from a drunkenness law in England, among other countries, dubbed as 'The Drunkard’s Cloak', back in the 16th century.
MGE8 TIL Ichiro Suzuki learned Spanish through his career in order to talk trash to the Latin players.
5Vejk TIL how Jeffrey Dahmer would torment guards in prison and threaten to cannibalize them
jvEE TIL that J.J Tomson was awarded a Nobel prize for discovering particle like nature of electron while his son G.P. Thomson is awarded Nobel prize for discovering wave like nature of electron
KOnJ9 TIL that Gwyneth Paltrow marketed jade eggs for women to insert into their vaginas, and got sued for false claims and misleading information