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TIL That massive, commercial fishing nets are simply thrown into the ocean after their service life, posing a huge threat to marine life

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XEo96 TIL: Many of the Space Shuttles parts were produced exclusively by small mom and pop shops. When the shuttle retirement was announced, a lifetime buy of parts was made — when the Shuttle retired, the mom and pop shops retired with it.
9Y8Nr TIL that Jay Leno had his first cup of coffee at 63 years old on Jerry Seinfeld's recent show "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee". He, of course, hated it and Jerry finished the rest.
xYJ0 TIL that the special seaweed that tastes like Bacon when fried or smoked, Dulse, is already available in some stores in the smoked variety
WknEo TIL the 1959 movie Some Like It Hot featured LQBTQ themes, including cross dressing, and as a result was produced without approval from the Hays Code, a popular set of self-censorship guidelines used for decades in Hollywood. The success of the film is one of the reasons behind its abandonment.
yQJLV TIL of 'Revelations of Divine Love', a book of Christian mysticism by Julian of Norwich. Written in 1373, it is the oldest surviving book in the English language written by a woman.