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TIL The Steel Crisis was not caused by foreign imports but by American companies refusal to modernize.

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b8k4 TIL “Deep Blue”, one of the largest great white sharks ever filmed, is estimated to be 50 years old… and was (at the time) pregnant!
WxR4 TIL the poorest place in the US is 96% Native American and the median income of men is $0
d89B8 TIL that Bon Jovi’s "You Give Love A Bad Name", Bonnie Tyler’s "If You Were A Woman (And I Was A Man)" and Ava Max's "Kings & Queens" have the same melody.
Xe9X TIL that the first recorded human death by robot was on Jan. 25, 1979, when a Ford Motors assembly line worker was killed in Flat Rock, Michigan.
69ppm TIL that when Poland's Karol Józef Wojtyła became Pope John Paul II in 1978, it marked the first time since 1523 that the Pope was not Italian.