One of the first things I learned during my tenure at mental_floss: Writing a listicle is no excuse for half-assing the research. Do that, and not only will you get facts horribly wrong, you'll also miss all the really interesting stuff. What's more awesome? Truthy things your readers have already heard, or real facts that are new? At Science Sushi, Christie Wilcox turns a recent Buzzfeed listicle on ocean science inside out and finds the cool facts that got passed over — from the real source of the mysterious deep ocean "Bloop" to the world's largest underwater waterfall.
16 things Buzzfeed doesn't know about the ocean
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