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TIL how the human introduced Burmese python is destroying the everglades

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awO1L TIL that most Oxygen (50% to 75%) comes from tiny ocean plants – called phytoplankton – as opposed to trees.
g5kb TIL a woman by the name of Lydia Fairchild took a DNA test that showed that the biological mother of her own children was her twin sister that did not exist. Further testing showed she was a chimera: a person who absorbs their twin in the womb and has two sets of DNA.
Zpdrv TIL why blueprints are blue. They have a chemical called Ferric Ferrocyanide (which is light sensitive) and was used on the paper to make copies of designs and drafts, ultimately leading to that iconic blue color.
pY4bQ TIL about an operation where the Nazi gov't plotted to airdrop the UK with forged banknotes and collapse the British economy. They had successfully introduced forged banknotes into Britain earlier, but this operation failed, and many of the notes were sunk in 2 Austrian lakes.
jNlKE TIL that Vanilla Ice used Queen and David Bowie's Under Pressure song baseline for his one-hit wonder Ice Ice Baby but didn't pay any royalties to Queen or Bowie. After facing a lawsuit, he then claimed he purchased the song Under Pressure in an interview, only to be corrected by a Queen spokesman.