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TIL that there is an entirely independent food chain that lives deep in the ocean, that is effectively independent of sunlight, and these life forms are the leading candidates for extra-terrestrial life.

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QNMnd TIL the Sargasso Sea, located entirely in the Atlantic Ocean, is the only sea without a land boundary on the planet.
l5eA TIL Jurassic Park has just 15 minutes of dinosaur screen time.
ogAo TIL a factory worker saved 34 lives from the 9-story Rana Plaza collapse. Against all warnings, he climbed inside the rubble to pull people to safety. When a doctor was too afraid to go in to amputate the limbs of some that were trapped, the worker took a knife and did it himself to save them.
jrNa TIL that a man on the internet convinced a large number of people he was a time traveler
XawX TIL torpedoes in WW2 didn’t target the physical ship; rather was detonated underneath it resulting in a shockwave snapping the ship in half