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TIL that Marianas Trench is a United States National Monument

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epO4 TIL that the average male produces around 14 gallons of ejaculate in his lifetime.
5VBn TIL: honey is more effective at cough suppression than many over the counter cough syrups
KOQjR TIL for Disney's Snow White, animators had difficulties adding the color red to Snow White's cheeks: "she looked like a clown with painted cheeks". That is until one of the ink-and-paint girls suggested they use real blush on the animation cells. Thus, every scene with Snow White has real makeup.
ANP6d TIL that platypuses milk oozes from the surface of their skin; it also contains powerful antibacterial proteins
W70o9 TIL Graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor, Antony Hewish, built a radio telescope to observe quasars in 1967. Their discovery won the 1974 Nobel Prize – for Hewish. 50 years later, Burnell was awarded $3 Million in the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics