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TIL The average depth of the ocean is 12080 feet, or over 2 miles deep.

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6Ekrm TIL that there are elections in North Korea, on election day, everyone aged 17 and up is legally obliged to show up to vote. Once it is your turn to vote, you are given a ballot paper with just one name on it, nothing to fill in or cross out, you just take the paper and stick in a ballot box.
b6Or7 TIL that babies have a reasting heart rate of 100 to 160 BPM
rN6Oo TIL The French conquest of Algeria lasted over 70 years, and five separate French governments. In the end as much as a third of Algeria's population was killed in the decades of invasions.
Oo76e TIL of Gunner, a stray Australian dog who, after being wounded in a WW2 air raid, could distinguish so accurately between the sounds of Allied and Japanese planes that he could give 20 mins warning before an air attack. He was taken in by the RAAF and given a role detecting air attacks on Darwin.
8oVV TIL of a black New York pastor in 1947 who decided to travel to Alabama in a turban and with a fake accent, posing as a foreign dignitary. His disguise allowed him in white-only areas, and he was treated with little discrimination.