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TIL According to researchers, there will be no seafood left to catch by 2048, except for jellyfish, which will thrive in the new, collapsed ecosystem.

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r80o TIL the author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was an experimental test subject of the CIA’s MK Ultra program.
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Zp8PQ TIL That England has scorpions.
WkWN4 TIL that the truck flipping scene/stunt in The Dark Knight didn't use any CGI at all, meaning it was a practical stunt. Nolan used TNT and a piston on the rear base of the 18-wheeler in order to make it flip the way it did in the film. It worked successfully.
xVWwB TIL about Garden-Path Sentences such as "The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families." which are grammatically correct but almost always read initially as nonsensical