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TIL that Gabe Newell, president of the video game company Valve which created steam, owns Inkfish, an ocean-exploration research organisation which currently holds the records for the deepest crewed dives in all five oceans with their deep-submergence vehicle Limiting Factor

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vPy9L TIL of the Church of One Tree, a church in Santa Rosa, California built with lumber from a single redwood tree The tree used to construct the Church stood 275 feet high and was 18 feet in diameter. It produced 78,000 board feet of lumber.
7rkVL TIL that each year the Netherlands sends 20,000 tulip bulbs to Canada as a thank you for aiding in the WWII
rnJe TIL: The shish is the stick the kebab goes on, hence Shish Kebab.
Me8ka TIL about the Black Hole Era, a period of time in the future where the universe will spend the vast majority of it's overall life shuttered in absolute darkness with all the stars in the night sky having died out and space itself dominated by nothing but super massive black holes for eons upon eons
aw6Z0 TIL: A lot of sand is Parrotfish poop. They each poop around 800 lbs of sand a year that ends up making our beaches.