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TIL Famous Oceanographer Robert Ballard has a 24/7 livestream where he continues the quest to map the entire ocean floor.

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Br7kx TIL that immediately after landing on the moon, the Apollo 11 crew was supposed to sleep for 5 hours. They didn't, because they figured they wouldn't be able to.
LkBE9 TIL The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
LQLXZ TIL the black bears in California's San Gabriel Valley were shipped here from Yellowstone in the 1930s, when they were retired from entertaining visitors by eating garbage in arenas.
78ARX TIL before overdrive guitar pedals were invented, rock pioneer Link Wray would intentionally stab the speaker cone of his guitar amps with a pencil to achieve a distorted sound. This resulting effect can be heard on his 1958 song “Rumble”.
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