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TIL the shells of loggerhead sea turtles provide a rare hard surface in the open ocean - allowing a whole ecosystem of barnacles, amphipods, and crabs to live upon them!

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dVa9 TIL To prepare for the title role in The Pianist, Adrian Brody withdrew for months, gave up his apartment and his car, was left by his then-girlfriend, learned how to play Chopin on the piano, and lost 29 lbs (13 kg).
88rG TIL Marylin Manson purposively never did any interviews when he was getting blamed for the Columbine shooting because he would be contributing to giving the shooters what they wanted: media attention.
4XavX TIL In San Francisco in 1876, railroad baron Charles Crocker built a 40 ft (12.2 m) tall fence around 3 sides of his neighbor because he (the neighbor) refused to sell his home to Crocker.
WkJb8 TIL Vitaminwater is basically sugar-water, to which about a penny's worth of synthetic vitamins have been added. A bottle of vitaminwater contains 33 grams of sugar, making it more akin to a soft drink than to a healthy beverage
8ZVP TIL when the US Navy refused to cooperate during the filming of the movie Crimson Tide, filmmakers waited outside Pearl Harbor for a submarine to head to sea and chased it with a boat and helicopter to get the shot of it submerging.