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TIL about the Canadian Coast Guard's protocol for cleaning up oil spills.

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XEMlk TIL: There are 23,000 cataloged objects orbiting Earth in space, with the majority (14,950) produced by a Chinese anti-satellite test. A collision with even the tiniest of these fragments can be disastrous to any spacecraft.
PplG TIL that when a homeless New Yorker dies and can’t be identified, he or she is buried using prison labor in an unmarked grave on an island filled with such mass graves.
5VMVB TIL Travis, the chimpanzee that was famous for ripping a woman’s face off, also was struck by a bottle thrown by a pedestrian, at a stop light, before unbuckling his seatbelt, jumping out the window, and chasing the man on foot then disappearing for several hours.
j6oeN TIL Cotton candy is called "old lady's hair" in India and Greece.
pKB8 TIL customer service reps can see what you’re typing before you hit send.