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TIL most of our oxygen actually comes from oceanic plankton.

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ne9ob TIL a species of spider discovered in 2015 was named Godric Gryffindor, due to it's resemblance to the Sorting Hat in Harry Potter.
kJ4J5 TIL the terms "booze" , "fed up", "hoodwinked", "under her thumb" and "wrapped around her finger" come from falconry
keE TIL in Indiana and Tennessee, it is illegal for a man to have an erection in public
m14Mp TIL that in May 2023, the South Charleston Police Department began trying to find the owners of thousands of shoes after a shoe repair business closed down. Many of the shoes had been there for years. One woman received her shoes back that had been in there since 2001.
g9WX TIL that the concurrent Navy training and testing could potentially kill hundreds of whales and dolphins and disable thousands over the next five years.