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TIL that Ellen DeGeneres was cast as Dory in Finding Nemo when the director, Andrew Stanton, watched her ‘change the subject 5 times before finishing the sentence’ in conversation with his wife.

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9LoG TIL that due to incredibly high pressure on Uranus and Neptune, it is theorized that oceans of liquid diamond exist on the surface of the planet, with solid “diamond-bergs” floating on the surface
D1jLY TIL Nelson Mandela was on the U.S. Terror Watch List until 2008
W74gA TIL in my cyber security class that tracking pizza deliveries to the Pentagon could reveal classified information:0 Apparently a sudden spike in late-night orders usually happens before a military operation or crisis.
Wx4X TIL Swedish Navy detected underwater sounds suspected to be hostile Russian submarines in the 80s. The suspicion escalated to a diplomatic conflict between Sweden and Russia. It turned out later that these sounds came from fish farts, a discovery which led to the Ig Nobel Prize.
NJK8 TIL that the United States experiences approximately 75 percent of all tornadoes in the world.