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TIL that salmon migration provides Nitrogen, an important nutrient, to forests surrounding estuaries via predation by bears and other animals.

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d8mL9 TIL in 1962 JFK wanted to create a nuclear economy which would have made viable massive desalination plants. Getting freshwater from saltwater “would really dwarf any other scientific accomplishments”
p8jAO TIL about red frogs, an Australian organisation where voulenteers give red frogs and pancakes to partygoers.
PZPn TIL in July 2015, a boat fell victim to waves on Lake Havasu, Arizona, filled with water, and sank to the bottom. When the Search and Rescue team responded to recover the boat an hour later, they discovered a stowaway cat that was still alive inside the sunken-boat.
DQB9P TIL In 1946, an American miner and Baptist preacher named William Henry Johnson began sending out a series of letters under the pen name "Furrier No. 1", claiming to be the living Hitler and to have escaped with Braun to Kentucky.
6J4W TIL that there was once so many millipedes in Australia that it caused a train crash