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TIL shrimp farmers deliberately blind female shrimp, to stimulate egg production

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N7AgJ TIL that there are two timezones for the Eastern Time Zone, depending on whether Daylight Savings is being observed.
1Jbr TIL Christopher Walken worked as a lion tamer as a teenager.
x6OJb TIL as the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto mounted, the inhabitants knew they would not survive. A team of historians, writers, rabbis, and social workers created a secret cache of documents to record their way of life. 2/3 of the cache survived the war
178W TIL that Canada was the third country to legalize same-sex marriage, after the Netherlands (2000) and Belgium (2003).