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TIL old NYC subway cars are dumped into the Atlantic Ocean to help build an artifical reef to serve as a habitat for marine life.

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xyLo TIL that a man “blinked a book”. Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffered from the Locked-in syndrome, could control only his left eyelid. By blinking his eye, he slowly dictated one alphabetic character at a time and, by doing so, was able to write his memoirs (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly).
4XKmo TIL that as the chair of the RNC, George HW Bush asked Richard Nixon to resign.
8eGjX TIL In 2017 Hackers used smart sensors in a casino fish tank to access its network and steal customer data.
DQYJp TIL Pizza companies Domino's, Little Caesars, and Hungry Howies are all headquartered in Michigan
yGL8 TIL The Mondragon Corporation is run democratically; its workers collectively choose, hire and fire their directors as well as decide the wage ratios between the top-paid and lowest-paid workers. It has been hailed as “a working model of an alternative to the capitalist mode of production.”