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TIL that Northern Inuit harvest mussels in the winter by walking underneath the sea ice when the tide is low.

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yV0Pe TIL the Simpsons characters Moe Szyslak and Mr Burns were originally voiced by Christopher Collins
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kJg TIL An ER doctor received so many patients from an Amazon Warehouse in Allentown, PA he reported it to OSHA for unsafe working conditions.
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awd0Z TIL about the Bangui magnetic anomaly which is a dip in the Earth's magnetic field in the Central African Republic - a grievously poor country in the middle of Africa. The anomaly may have been caused by an ancient meteorite impact...