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TIL that most Oxygen (50% to 75%) comes from tiny ocean plants – called phytoplankton – as opposed to trees.

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p8D14 TIL about Bruce’s Beach, owned by the Bruce Family. It was a segregated black-only beach resort in Manhattan Beach.
yQrXJ TIL that in the 1978 Battlestar Galactica series there was a robot pet character named 'Muffit 2' played by a chipanzee in a full body suit.
AEdn TIL the sun is a near perfect sphere. The difference between its equatorial and polar diameters is only about 10km
g4WW TIL Aerogel (an ultralight material used by NASA) was created by a scientist as the result of a bet whether he could replace the liquid in jellies with gas
j6Xen TIL about Prosthaphaeresis, a technique that uses trigonometric identities to quickly approximate a product of 2 numbers by turning it into an addition. It was the only known technique to do so, preceding by 25 years the discovery of the logarithm