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TIL: (Toxic to Soil and Plants) Styrofoam is Used in Potted Plants Instead of Perlite

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KO0xG TIL marine biologist, Stephen Hillenburg, created an educational comic book about tide pool animals called "The Intertidal Zone" to help educate his students. In later years after becoming an animator he began developing those same characters and concepts for what became "SpongeBob Squarepants."
v1pOB TIL: The 1997 Albanian Civil War was precipitated by an economic crisis caused by the collapse of several enormous pyramid schemes which over 2/3 of the country's population had invested in.
e0omb TIL about the 13,500 year old Grotte du Bichon man of Switzerland, whose remains were found intermingled with a wounded brown bear and charcoal. This indicates that he tried to force the bear out of the cave by fire to slaughter it, but in turn was killed by the dying animal.
pYPap TIL that the painter Caravaggio's real name was Michelangelo.
ep0on TIL Scientists are still unsure whether a Human and Chimpanzee hybrid called the Humanzee is biologically possible