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TIL that most of Earth’s oxygen comes from ocean plants like algae and phytoplankton.

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BryXW TIL when shooting Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth timed his shot so that the noise would be masked by the audience’s laughter. Being an actor, he knew the play Lincoln was watching by heart. Lincoln was laughing when shot.
LQb8P TIL: In 2015, 17 people died and 497 were injured at a water park concert in New Taipei by being being burned alive. Concert organizers did a "color powder party", the cloud of colored cornstarch caught on fire after being fired into the crowd due to deflagration. The fire lasted only 40 seconds.
b9o8E TIL if you publish a book in Norway, the government will buy 1000 copies (1,500 if a children's book) and distribute them to libraries throughout the country.
nee79 TIL Marlon Brando was the last person to reject a winning Oscar award (1973 best actor for The Godfather). He did it to protest the film industry's poor treatment of Native Americans. When a young Native American woman gave her speech in Brando's place, part of the crowd booed.
W7Q6o TIL that Piqua, Ohio, the setting of the Captain Underpants books, is a real town, and was chosen by the author for its now-discontinued annual Underwear Festival.