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TIL that the highest point in Florida is the top of the Four Seasons Hotel in Miami

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wG4W TIL There are thought to be 100,000 uncharted mountains under the sea.
b9BGj TIL in 1932, Winston Churchill went to a hotel in Munich two days in a row to have tea with Adolf Hitler. Hitler stood him up both times
EjVd TIL that Antartic explorer George Murray Levick in 1911-12 observed penguins’ sexual habits, which included sexual coercion, sex among males and sex with dead females; as these notes were deemed indecent for publication, he wrote them in Greek so that only an educated gentleman could read them
nW61b TIL that photosynthetic archaea(single-celled organisms similar in some ways to bacteria) absorb light using rhodopsin instead of chlorophyll, which is the same protein that our eyes use to see. The way they consume their food is the same way we see the world.
rNXRy TIL of "West Ridge", a merchant vessel carrying coal from the UK to India that went missing 141 years ago. The wreck was found when researchers were looking for MH370, to which researchers say it sunk because of an explosion.