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TIL that humans do to horseshoe crabs what conspiracy theorists claim aliens do to humans. We capture the crabs in huge numbers, drain their blood, and then return them to the ocean.

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4ekb TIL of “Operation Flex”, which took place in California in which an FBI informant pretended to be a radical Muslim, the members of the mosque quickly got a restraining order on him and reported him to the FBI.
JY6r8 TIL there is a guy who made an entire electric toaster from raw materials - mining and refining steel, nickel, copper, mica, and making plastic - after being inspired by a Hitchhiker’s Guide quotation.
ZO4G TIL that at one point in the 1970s, 1 out of every 204 working Americans was employed by Sears
RDrQ TIL during the filming of the scene in “The Professional” involving all of the police cars on the street, a man ran from a store he had just robbed. When he encountered the movie set by accident, he saw all of the “police” and gave himself up to a bunch of uniformed extras.
PYEdn TIL The Star Trek Transporter (teleportation) was created due to save money and episode length on showing the ship land on the planet as the original plan.