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TIL About The Billion Dollar Japanese Shrimp Ponzi Scheme

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4Xydw TIL In 2008, it was estimated that there were 4,000 weekly incidents of fare evasion on New York's B46 bus route. In 2014 the MTA ranked it as "the most dangerous and crime-ridden bus route"
d8m7Z TIL When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, Buzz performed communion, drinking wine from a church chalice. NASA chose not to broadcast it because of the religious nature of the event.
9YKoM Today I learned about a "Cat Organ", a hypothetical musical instrument which consists of a line of cats fixed in place with their tails stretched out underneath a keyboard so that they cry out when a key is pressed.
d84l8 TIL Before 1972 it was a felony for unmarried people to possess contraception such as birth control or condoms in the United States.
GOPQ TIL a strand of spider silk long enough to encircle the whole Earth would weigh only just over a pound