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TIL nothing rots at the bottom of the ocean

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yQrQJ TIL that leap years occur mostly every 4 years, but every 100 years we skip a leap year unless the year is divisible by 400, meaning that 2000 is a leap year while 2100 is not.
VMkBm TIL In honor of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, the Soviet Union named a crater on Venus after Christa McAuliffe, who was supposed to be the first teacher in space but died in the disaster.
PYyJw TIL A massive amount of the donations sent to clothing recycling companies and charities end up being exported and sold all over the world, heavily dominating local markets across Africa.
Brald TIL that Christopher Lee (known for his role as Dracula, Saruman, Count Dooku, etc.) thinks his best performance was as Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the documentary film "Jinnah." The film had positive responses after being shown at festivals but was never distributed to cinemas.
g4gL TIL that in 2014 a potential new state of matter called “disordered hyperuniformity” was discovered in the eye of a chicken.