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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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wLb76 TIL The pilot episode for Friends (known at the time as Friends Like Us) used REM's Shiny Happy People as its theme song.
16rbP TIL: when awarding the 1987 Nobel prize in chemistry to a dr. Donald Cram, the committee accidentally phoned up Donald Cram, a Californian carpet cleaner with the same name.
womvo TIL Drizzle is actually a distinct form of precipitation from rain, consisting of liquid water drops smaller than those of rain – generally smaller than 0.5 mm (0.02 in) in diameter.
WvxL TIL that adjusted for inflation, Gone with the Wind is the highest grossing film of all time, earning the equivalent of $3.3 billion
pYapp TIL in 1986 the US Government released a music album featuring McGruff the Crime Dog in an effort to combat drug use