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TIL that in virtual all commercial shrimp maturation and reproduction facilities one or both eyes are being removed from the mother shrimps to stimulate egg production.

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rL51 TIL that Kermit The Frog is left handed. (This is true of most Muppets. A puppeteer usually operates the puppet’s head and mouth with his or her dominant hand while the other hand operates the puppet’s hand or arm. Since most people are right-handed, most Muppets are left-handed.)
D10Ve TIL Throughout the 1930s, Hollywood studios worked with Nazi Germany to self-censor and avoid certain topics and depictions in their movies in order to avoid being banned from the (then) lucrative German film market.
Xrjk TIL that Henry Ford did not invent the assembly line. Even before the Industrial Revolution, the Venetian Arsenal used an assembly line to build large merchant ships in as little as 24 hours, nearly 600 years before Ford.
4jXR TIL that Facebook is predominantly blue in color because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind and blue is the “richest color” that he can see
JXY8 TIL the name of the TIME magazine stands for “The International Magazine of Events”