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TIL that deep inside caves in Romania, there’s an isolated ecosystem that’s been cut off from the outside world for over 5 million years, with unique life forms that rely on chemosynthesis, not photosynthesis.

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Yp8Gd TIL witches were never depicted with green skin before the 1939 Wizard of Oz film. Witches were commonly depicted as red or orange beforehand. The Wicked Witch of the West was not described as green in the book, and she was only made green in the film because it looked really good in technicolor.
4XLww TIL that Republicans are called the right, and Democrats are called the left, because of seating arrangements of various legislative parties in France in the late 1700’s. Supporters of the king sat on the right of the Speaker, and supporters of the revolution on the left.
kJdGg TIL Opossums can climb brick walls
WkYX8 TIL its implied by the initial writer for the Pokémon anime, there were plans to end the series by the Gold and Silver era and he reveals that he had an ending drafted, in which the last episode reveals an elderly Ash Ketchum had hallucinated the entire events of the show
Z8la4 TIL: There is an increased risk of heart attacks associated with "spring forward" for Daylight Savings Time