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TIL English Muffins are designed to be split with a fork, not a knife

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v1PER Prochlorococcus is believed to be the most abundant photosynthetic creature on the planet and may provide as much as 20 percent of the oxygen you breathe. Oceanographer and Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle introduces us to these microscopic bacteria.
9YNkG TIL Tom Hanks agreed to play Mario in the the ‘now infamous’ live action movie “Super Mario Bros”. However, studio executives turned him down because they were worried he couldn’t handle the film’s more dramatic elements. (Clip starts at 4:26)
VMeJZ TIL that according to the Taeuber Paradox eliminating death from all cancers would only increase US life expectancy at birth by 3.36 years
X9Mj TIL A sleeping Killer Whale (Orca) pod (approx. 6-30 whales in a pod) breathes in unison - they form a tight circle, then surface for air and re-submerge as one, while sleeping!
JJa8 TIL ants take their dead back to their nests to be put into a burial chamber with their other deceased.