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TIL that fishermen in Belgium use horseback to catch shrimp.

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M747m TIL the U.S. Navy had a warship called the USS Gyatt. Commissioned in 1945, the ship was named after Edward Earl Gyatt, a Marine Corps private who died in battle in 1942.
kOOp1 TIL that in 1984 a man escaped the Iron Curtain by flying a self-built aircraft across the Czechoslovakian border
rRgBM TIL Ron Popeil was a college drop out and his Showtime Rotisserie & BBQ sold over eight million units in the US alone
gpgb TIL that a Naked Mole Rat can survive up-to 18 minutes without oxygen by dropping its heart rate and switching to fructose based anaerobic respiration. It’s also the only known cold-blooded mammal.
m1xGR TIL all original members from the Ramones are dead