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TIL that whale carcasses sequester a huge amount of carbon in the ocean

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jgMR TIL the Waldorf School in Silicon Valley—where many Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard employees send their children—has no computers or screens of any kind
aw50o TIL President Benjamin Harrison's fathers corpse was stolen from its grave. The body was eventually found by his brother at the Ohio medical college hidden in a chute
VMPpp TIL of the Scholomance, a school of black magic located in Romania. According to legend, the teacher of the school was the Devil. Upon graduation, the Devil would select one of the students to be the Weathermaker, a dragon rider responsible for controlling the weather.
R7p54 TIL The ancient Greeks and Romans used pomace to create an inferior wine normally given to slaves and common workers. After the wine grapes had been pressed twice, the pomace was soaked in water for a day and pressed for a 3rd time. It produced a thin, weak and thirst-quenching wine called piquette
4koBb TIL that in 12th grade Steve Wozniak made a fake bomb, laughed at the principal that disarmed it then electrocuted the guards at juvenile detention with 120v electricity.