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TIL that Chinese takeaway crispy seaweed is actually spring greens

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J1bGV TIL that in 2018, Saudi Arabia lifted a 35-year ban on cinema. The first film to screen publicly in the country after the ban was lifted was "The Emoji Movie"
mGXo TIL: One of the submersibles used to dive the Titanic was attacked by a swordfish which got trapped in it’s skin causing it to make an emergency surface. They then cooked it for dinner
loLLK TIL in 2012 a 80 yo lady safely landed a plane after her husband, the pilot, had an heart attack and died while flying. She had never flown before.
XEKm8 TIL: For journalistic purposes, William Thomas Stead exposed child prostitution and abduction in 1885 by having a thirteen-year-old victim, Eliza Armstrong, "purchased" for £5 and taken to a brothel where she was drugged. He published this later in a series of exposés that shocked readers.
okBL TIL of the Anti-Flirt Club, which was organized in the early 1920s to protect young women and girls who received unwelcome attention from men in automobiles and on street corners.