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TIL that the local transport in Locarno, Switzerland, is called «Ferrovie Autolinee Regionali Ticinesi», making for an interesting acronym.

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j6jE TIL that the U.S. Navy lent the Village People a ship for a music video, hoping they would use it as a recruitment tool.
vZ68 TIL Sperm whales hunt upside down toward the bottom of the ocean. They look back up and locate squid by their silhouettes against the light from the surface.
DQEgP Today I learned that from 1972 to 1994 the Office of Technology Assesment existed and functioned similarly to the FDA until it was defunded.
wLGK7 TIL that there is a massive complex of termite mounds in Brazil that are 4,000 years old and about the size of Britain
rNa70 TIL we are literally Drowning in plastic, every year 481 billion plastic bottles are sold, more than enough to bury the Burj Khalifa, well done to Reuters for such an impactful (and rather disturbing) visualisation!