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TIL:47 percent of Detroiters are ”functionally illiterate.”

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xk77 TIL: Over 248 Police Officers and Firefighters in New Jersey were linked to a steroids ring in 2007.
jBlX TIL Roughly 1/6 of the $6.9 million budget for the movie Dazed and Confused was used just to acquire the rights to many of the 70s music used in the film.
LQ6rr TIL about FADs (fish aggregating devices), which are man-made floats or buoys tethered to the ocean floor. Fish are fascinated with and aggregate in considerable numbers around floating objects which provide a “visual stimulus in an optical void.” 1/3 of global tuna are caught using FADs.
rEKM TIL For the Guinness World Records, it is required in the guidelines of all “large food” type records that the item be fully edible, and distributed to the public for consumption, to prevent food wastage.
D1vxY TIL that through his mother, Abraham Lincoln is related to Tom Hanks, George Clooney, and Camille Cosby