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TIL we have been to the deepest parts of the ocean, only to find that our own trash beat us there.

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4Wk5 TIL: That “33 percent of men in Britain aged between 35 and 60 years are unable to see their penis.”
5ynn TIL on April Fools’ Day 1957 the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showed a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the family “spaghetti tree”. Spaghetti was so little-known that many Britons contacted the BBC for advice on growing their own trees.
NpQQ TIL in 1995 Newsweek published an article scoffing the future of the internet. It laughed at the idea that people would gets news, learn, or buy airline tickets online. It is still available on their website.
d8JOE TIL the 2002 D.C. sniper shootings were part of a plan by John Allen Muhammad to kill his ex wife. By the time he was caught, he had killed 17 random people, so she’d look like just one more random victim
YpBRd TIL Fred Astaire’s last on-screen dance was as an alien prince on Battlestar Galactica at the age of 80 because his grandchildren watched it