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TIL jellyfish make up up to 40% of the ocean’s biomass, and their combined swimming puts out a trillion watts of energy - as much as wind or tidal energy.

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78xJP TIL Jim Belushi and Julie Newmar had a publicized feud and legal battle where she accused him of building an illegal 2nd home on his property, and he sued her $4M for defamation. The conflict ended amicably when he invited her onto According to Jim in an episode satirizing their feud.
DQVxr TIL that in 1958, a plan called Project Oilsand proposed using nuclear bombs to exploit oil from Alberta's Athabasca tar sands. The concept involved the underground detonation of up to 100 nuclear explosives to create intense heat; hypothetically liquefying the oil and making it easier to extract.
VMwX4 TIL that elephants lack a scrotum and their testes are located internally near their kidneys. This fact, along with other embryological and palaeontological evidence, suggests that their ancestors were aquatic.
mQGP TIL the total cost for U.S. nuclear weapons from 1940 to 1998 was $5.5 trillion. The US public debt in 1998 was $5.3 trillion.
a8Mvo TIL about the Zveno project or “Flying Aircraft Carriers” in the 1930s, where a long-range mothership would carry up to 5 fighter planes