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TIL Electric eels NEED to breathe air

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rNLZ1 TIL that the James Bond theme song is a rework of the composer's (Monty Norman's) earlier work "Bad Sign, Good Sign" which is a song about a man with a terrible sneeze.
9wraX Today I learned that Zambia, a country in Southern Africa tried to send a cat, a Christian missionary and a girl to Mars in an oil drum.
7lYX TIL 30 feet underwater there is no red light, so blood appears green
8jPK TIL that according to a flat earth theory our forests are not “real”, thousands of years ago, 99% of the Earth’s biosphere were destroyed, and the real forests were taken away. Real trees were hundreds of kilometres tall, magical organisms that sustained a total living ecology of the flat earth.
RYQ6 TIL The bottom of Lake Ontario is so cold that skyscrapers use it as coolant for AC systems