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

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4XQ9a TIL Albert Camus had a life long fear of automobiles. When he started writing about Absurdism, he wrote: "the most absurd way to die is in a car crash". He died of a car crash on 4 January, 1960.
VMOxB TIL Nike paid $35 to then student designer Carolyn Davidson for their iconic “Swoosh” logo
EgEd7 TIL 41 years ago, today, 3 people died on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983); under the negligent direction of John Landis, after he ordered a helicopter's tail-rotor directly over staged FX explosives. Bringing down the copter, decapitating two and crushing the other to death.
e0GJE TIL that Pop Its were invented by a former classmate of Anne Frank, inspired by imagining "a large field of breasts, that you can push the nipple" from one side to the other
0dL6j TIL the toonie (Canadian $2 coin) is named that due to it being two loonies. A loonie being the name of the $1 coin due to it featuring a single loon on the coin.