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TIL 44% of Americans can’t swim

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e0MBg TIL During the past two years, at least five bills relating to the country’s shark fin trade have been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. All five died before becoming laws, leaving the fate of sharks in the U.S. uncertain.
9wbxm TIL that in 1967, radio astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the first pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star emitting precise radio pulses. Initially it was thought to be a potential signal from an extraterrestrial intelligence, so it was named LGM-1 (short for Little Green Men).
4kL0a TIL that Crossword puzzles are always rotationally symmetric, have a theme, and the authors are called Cruciverbalists!
v1AXB TIL: After the 2019 Notre Dame Cathedral fire, the video game Assassin’s Creed: Unity helped restoration efforts due to the highly detailed in-game model of the the Cathedral.
Y70Zd TIL that the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador is almost as big as California, slightly bigger than Japan, and nearly two times the size of the United Kingdom.