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TIL that Earth’s oxygen is primarily produced by the ocean.

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Mjmb TIL the story that NASA spent $1 million on a space pen while the soviets simply used a pencil is false. The pen was developed by a private company without any taxpayer dollars and NASA simply became a client afterwards.
j6Mjv TIL that the most recent common ancestor of all current European monarchs lived in the 18th century
yQLGJ TIL: Getting hit in the testicles isn't more painful than labor or childbirth
155W TIL two brothers died in NYC in 1947: one was killed by his own booby trap bringing food to his blind/paralyzed brother, who then starved to death in the maze of 140 tons of hoarded items in their house.
xyJk TIL Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, recorded a $167 million loss on paper because of “Hollywood Accounting”. Warner Brothers effectively made sure that the movie lost money by paying itself a $212 million “distribution fee” off the top.