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TIL that in the UK April Fools' Day ends at noon

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D1MNp TIL there are more than three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor.
GAV07 TIL that, according to a study, we spend a total of 3.5 months of our lives hitting the snooze button and 57% of Americans are snoozer, and even more in UK, with 70% of Brits are snoozer
GAWwE TIL a linguistic study discovered that winter workers in Antarctica started to develop a new accent. They noticed a change after measuring the participants' vocal characteristics before and after their visit. This is the result of them being isolated as a group and interacting with only one another.
yVnEJ TIL American socialite and art collector Peggy Guggenheim claimed to have slept with over 1,000 men, many of them well known artists and writers. Among her known friends and lovers were Marcel Duchamp, Samuel Beckett and Max Ernst (who was also her second husband).
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