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TIL of the spacecraft cemetery - a remote location in the Pacific where dozens of decommissioned vessels have splashed down

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6v5X TIL X and Y chromosomes weren’t named for their shapes, it’s entirely coincidental that they look that way during mitosis!
WkyY9 TIL of Frank Gusenberg, he died of 14 gunshot wounds a few hours after he was shot during the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. When asked who shot him, he replied " No one...nobody shot me." His last words were "I ain't no copper."
LQllm TIL Andrew Johnson was one of 12 US Presidents to not graduate from college, and the only one to have "no formal schooling of any kind," and Abraham Lincoln, another of the 12, "had only about a year of formal schooling of any kind."
MeXQK Today I learned most of the world’s oxygen comes from the ocean and not from trees.
9YRaQ TIL: Asbestos is not banned in the US. It’s still imported raw and sold in consumer goods.