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TIL to date, we have only explored 5% of the sea.

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KYKwJ TIL there’s an abandoned Six Flags in New Orleans that was shut down after heavy damage from Katrina. It’s been used for various films such as Percy Jackson, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and Jurassic World.
XE09Q TIL that at the incredibly popular race track the "Las Vegas Motor Speedway" every once in a while the local sheriffs department will come down to drag race anyone who simply has a license, a street legal car, and is interested, in an effort to take illegal drag/street racing off the public roads.
YpoPd TIL of Tab soda, Coca-Cola’s first brand of diet soda launched in 1963, was only just discontinued in 2020
69b0J TIL that physicist and biologist, Luigi Galvani’s work on Bioelectricity gave Mary Shelley inspiration for Frankenstein.
wkjJ TIL Cleopatra and Julius Caesar nicknamed their lovechild “Caesarion” which means “Little Caesar”