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TIL that warmer seas and oceans increase the occurence of the organism Noctiluca, that creates the beautiful blue luminscence in seas and oceans. The latest finding is that the loss of snow and ice in the himalayas changes the ecosystem in the Arabian Sea.

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neEOP TIL there is a no-kill way of producing caviar, allowing to massage eggs out of the pregnant sturgeon, and which could make caviar 70% cheaper if produced at scale
A5Xa TIL 35 years before the Holocaust, Germany committed one of the first genocides of the 20th century in modern-day Namibia. German forces sealed off the Namib desert leaving up to 100,000 native Africans to die of starvation and exposure.
lGQG TIL Hans Zimmer wrote the score for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar based off a one page letter about “what it means to be a father.”
4kmw TIL greyhound changed their slogan from “there’s a reason youve never heard of bus rage” after a brutal murder occured on one of their lines
Bg1XD TIL Kit Harington auditioned for “Game of Thrones” with a black eye after getting involved in a fight at McDonald’s the night before. The fight was because someone called his date an “ugly pig”. Kit ended up getting the role of Jon Snow and thought the black eye may have helped him land the role.