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TIL that more than half of the oxygen we breathe come from marine photosynthesizers like seaweed and phytoplankton.

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LWrd TIL only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still exists
QN0d TIL Nitka Khruschev once referred to Berlin as the “testicles of the west,"claiming that,"everytime I want to make the west scream, I squeeze on Berlin.”
Dd4P TIL Teachers in NYC are so difficult to fire that when deemed unfit to teach they are often placed in rubber rooms where they serve the same hours they had working in schools.
kABB TIL that there hasn’t been a Democrat-nominated chief justice in almost 60 years.
e0XWb TIL that mitochondria and chloroplasts were originally separate prokaryotic organisms (single celled organisms) engulfed by eukaryotic cells (plant and animal). Now they are part of our DNA due to a continued endosymbiotic relationship.