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TIL most of our oxygen actually comes from oceanic plankton.

Read more oceanservice.noaa.gov

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kO5Eg TIL that in 1992, a 53 year-old woman Geraldine Wesolowski who was postmenopasual gave birth to her own grandson. She was the gestational surrogate for her son and his wife since they couldn't conceive a baby due to hysterectomy
XEyE TIL Stephen King’s lawyer bought and then crushed the van that severely injured King when it knocked him down. King later said he was disappointed he’d never had the opportunity to destroy it himself with a baseball bat and a pickaxe.
oN7W TIL Led Zeppelin, REM, and Depeche Mode have never had a #1 single but, Rihanna has had 10.
eo9L TIL in 1988, a man named Robert W. Faid published a book mathematically “proving” that the Antichrist was Mikhail Gorbachev, with odds of exactly 710,609,175,188,282,000 to 1. He later won an Ig Nobel prize for it.
loRJG TIL that the most active author on r/conspiracy wrote 896,337 words, twice the length of the Lord of the Rings trilogy