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TIL the goods and services provided by coral reefs are valued at $2.7 trillion a year.

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mxdDv TIL that 9 missing episodes of the 1960s Dr Who series were found in a TV station in Nigeria. They’d been left there in the 60s-70s for foreign syndication. It was the largest haul of classic Who episodes ever recovered in the last three decades.
VBW4D TIL the Allies fielded thousands of tanks by the end of World War I, a major technological breakthrough. The Germans deployed just 18.
BrDok TIL That among the many Elvis impersonators featured in the 1992 Nicholas Cage/Sarah Jessica Parker movie 'Honeymoon In Vegas' was a then six year old Bruno Mars.
jNPrN TIL in 2010 Spain held a siesta competition. It lasted 20 minutes and contestants were awarded points on the quality of their sleep, their positions, their snores and even for their pyjamas.
nPA9 TIL: The pilot episode of the Lone Gunmen was about a conspiracy of the US government to hijack an airline and fly it into the World Trade Center to start a profit making war. It aired March 4, 2001.