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TIL In 1992, shipping containers with around 28,000 rubber ducks were lost in the Pacific Ocean. Ducks are still being found today.

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wLMeo TIL Disney owns an enormous amount of land in Florida (Nearly 40 Square Miles). All of Disneyland could fit in the Magic Kingdom parking lot.
VMW9p TIL of Trish Vickers, a blind author who wrote 26 pages of her first novel without realising her pen had run out of ink. The local police force used their forensic lab to find the missing words, and the book was published on the day of her death.
rRVeM TIL that Jack Johnson was a professional surfer before singer/songwriter and “at 17 he was the youngest participant to reach the finals at the Pipeline Masters in Maui.”
78MZL TIL that only 15-20% soldiers fired their weapons during WWII. Those who would not fire did not run or hide—in many cases they were willing to risk greater danger to rescue comrades, get ammunition, or run messages.
p8MPQ TIL The Ojibwe language, which has been influenced by Cree vocabulary, is spoken in about a dozen First Nations communities in northwestern Ontario. Oji-Cree greetings were first used in the Ontario legislature in 2018