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TIL that due to religious reasons, Manhattan is encircled by a constantly maintained, continuous string of clear wire.

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9wWaD TIL about ternary plots. You can visualise 3 quantities on a 2d triangular graph if they add up to a constant (eg. soil components or colour composition). One graph is “x+y+z=1” which makes a triangle on positive axes, with the regular 3d gridlines intersecting to form triangular ones in the graph.
nBKB TIL the Exxon Valdez, a ship that caused one of the most infamous oil spills in history is still carrying oil today, albeit with a different name. However,it is banned from carrying oil off of the Alaskan coast, the site of the spill
GY0e4 TIL of Kim Hyon-hui, a North Korean spy who was captured by South Korea. She agreed to cooperate after being taken on a tour of Seoul and discovering that the South was vastly more prosperous than the North
nWeQY TIL A japanese company Tokyo Movie Shinsha made a lot of disney classics like original Duck Tales, Winnie the Pooh, Inspector Gadget, Chip & Dale
Me0KV TIL about Zakynthos, a Greek island that hid it's Jewish residents who otherwise would have went to Auschwitz. It is Europe's only complete surviving Jewish community during the Holocaust.