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TIL there is a 19 km long “blob” of unusual black algae that is floating in the arctic ocean between Russia and Alaska. Scientists have not been able to determine the species.

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Rwm4 TIL 2 Chainz asked permission to sample Lehrer’s “The Old Dope Peddler”. Lehrer responded, “As sole copyright owner of ‘The Old Dope Peddler’, I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?”
VMKlG TIL the canonical reason the documentary crew is filming the office in “The Office (u.s.) “ is to investigate the workplace environment after an employee committed suicide
dGdE TIL that cave systems were recently discovered beneath Antarctica which are warm enough to wear t-shirts in, and in which it is said a “lost world” of new animals and plants may exist
RWpl TIL a modern jet fighter is purposefully designed to be aerodynamically unstable, with onboard computers which constantly work against this instability. This allows the jet to pull off super-agile manoeuvres by relaxing the efforts of the computer systems
abJ0 TIL: The French filmmaker who wrote and directed The Red Balloon also invented the board game Risk.