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TIL, that there are artificial islands on the coast of Los Angeles called the THUMS Island that are oil fields hidden in plain sight

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RRJw TIL that a ship sank in Alaska waters during the gold rush with as much as $260 million in gold aboard that’s never been recovered.
gMZR9 TIL The world's tallest man as of 2006 was asked to help remove plastic from a dolphin's stomach, and he succeeded by sticking his arm down the dolphins' esophagus and pulling out the plastic by hand
6VZm TIL that bronze is generally harder than iron. The Bronze Age didn’t give way to the Iron Age because iron weaponry was superior; rather, iron was more plentiful and easier to work with.
mPAE TIL the New Horizons space probe, which is scheduled to reach Pluto in July 2015, has on board the ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the planet in 1930.
rNR4 TIL there is a man obsessed with accusing one of Google’s co-founders of the murder of Stanford graduate student May Zhou. You will find him in the comments of any Google related story…..