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TIL that 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea refers to the distance traveled while under the sea, not the depth.

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xVJZb TIL Four babies are born every second
Yp8Gd TIL witches were never depicted with green skin before the 1939 Wizard of Oz film. Witches were commonly depicted as red or orange beforehand. The Wicked Witch of the West was not described as green in the book, and she was only made green in the film because it looked really good in technicolor.
4E0b TIL that in parts of Africa, people often report seeing (and even being attacked by) a pterodactyl-like creature known as the kongamato
YXDZ TIL A 15-year-old liver transplant patient is the first person in the world to take on the immune system and blood type of her donor.
4QYb TIL that in 2010 alone, a peer reviewed study found that reductions in fine particle pollution and ozone pollution achieved by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 avoided more than 160,000 deaths and prevented 13 million lost workdays.