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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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6E4XZ TIL of Paint Drying, a 10 hour movie about paint drying on a wall. Created as a protest to force British Board of Film Classification watch all 10 hours to rate the movie
W9JY TIL the man who invented the plastic flamingo has been wearing matching outfits with his wife for 35 years.
B74e TIL that the Nazis, if victorious, planned to drain the Mediterranean Sea to create Atlantropa - a giant continent composed of Europe and Africa.
xVmeB TIL that your teeth are actually highly-specialized fish scales
PYp4J TIL a mermaid documentary fooled so many people that the U.S. Government had to issue a statement