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TIL that there are methane ice worms in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico that live off of bacteria that eat the chemicals in the “ice”.

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6Z07 TIL While viewing porn, men tend to focus on a woman’s eyes and lips over breasts or genitals. Researchers speculate that men look at women’s faces to determine how “turned on” the woman is.
9wYJG TIL that in 1992, Little Caesar's founder Mike Ilitch bought the Detroit Tigers baseball team from Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan.
Wk4LA TIL late medieval and early modern European cartographers believed that compasses consistently pointed North because there was a massive, perfectly circular island made of naturally-magnetic black rock at the North Pole.
rRE80 TIL Johnny Depp was fed his movie lines through an earpiece for years.
wd96 TIL A commercial airline pilot successfully pretended to be a Cardiologist with 15 years of in field experience and even managed to publish 6 papers before being caught as a fraud.