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TIL Algae produces most of the world’s oxygen

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Z8nLo TIL about a Confederate sabotage device called a coal torpedo, which was a bomb designed to look like a lump of coal and meant to cause a steam ship's boiler to explode
QRD9 TIL that George Washington once said that “Overgrown military establishments” under any form of government are “Inauspicious to liberty” and “are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty”
1jMX TIL that when James Joyce picked a fight, he would hide behind Hemingway, “his drinking companion”, and shout: ‘Deal with him, Hemingway. Deal with him.’