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TIL there are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.

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mxe0y TIL of John Nash ( Portrayed by Russell Crowe in movie 'A Beautiful Mind') rejection of a long standing 2 century Economic Theory by Adam Smith. It lead him to win the Nobel Prize in 1994 for his own Game Theory. He got the idea with his friends in a bar with 4 average brunette & 1 pretty blonde.
LQB7P TIL Florida is a major producer of Norfolk Island pine seedlings, but it is common practice there to spray-paint the trees and some treat them as "disposable plants".
b6jna TIL of Vissarion, a Russian religious leader, who claims to be Jesus Christ reincarnated, with over 10k followers living off grid deep inside remote Siberia.
9wlK7 TIL Jimmy Carter signed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, the single largest expansion of protected lands in history which more than doubled the size of the National Parks System
rRxaW TIL that the collective tension of all the strings on a piano totals out at about 20 tonnes.