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TIL The world’s oceans teem with something like 700,000 to 1 million species, up to two-thirds of which biologists have never named or characterized

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kOLVm TIL that Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson} also voices Ralph Wiggum, Nelson Mandela Muntz, Tod Flanders, and Chuckie (Rugrats).
W798B TIL people rip bongs at the office
b9KP0 TIL New Zealand was home to some of the largest birds on Earth around 600 years ago, the Moas. These ostrich-like birds were as tall as 3m but went extinct due to overhunting by the first Polynesian settlers.
p8GOQ TIL of Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern taxonomy. His remains are the type specimen for Homo Sapiens. If any human evolves to such a point as to where they can no longer be described as being the same species as Carl's remains, they will no longer count as Homo Sapiens and will be a new species.
78RDZ TIL there is a crab that was named after David Hasselhoff's piece - the Hoff crab.