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TIL More than 10,000 shipping containers are lost at sea every year.

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j6ZpX TIL In the 2008 Jeopardy! Teen Tournament, two contests both named Rachel made it to the final. To avoid confusion when calling on the contestants to answer, one of them went by Steve for the games.
nWxeW TIL the US Supreme Court ruled in a case brought by Jehovah's Witnesses in 1940 that public schools could compel students to salute the flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance regardless of religious objections. The ruling was overturned in 1943.
WNxo TIL there is a religion called Christian atheism. Practitioners believe in essentially the same things as traditional Christians except that the Bible is completely metaphorical and that God and/or Jesus is an allegory for human morality rather than a real being.