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TIL that the USS Acadia was the first US Navy ship to house a wartime mixed sex crew and was unofficially nicknamed ‘The Love Boat’ after 10% of all women on board became pregnant during deployment

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e0rYk TIL of Fred, a New Jersey goat who was blamed for freeing over 60 animals from a livestock auction pen. Fred had escaped the auction house a year prior. After some of the animals were rounded up, Fred was seen headbutting the gate, leading the auction house manager to suspect Fred as the culprit.
QJ8DL TIL about Tokyo's incredibly efficient recycling systems. All combustible trash is incinerated, the smoke and gasses cleaned before release, and then the left over ash is used as a replacement for clay in the cement used for construction.
78PoZ TIL that the longest word entered in most standard English dictionaries is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is 45 letters long and describes a type of lung disease. The longest "word" stands at 189,819 letters long and would not fit in the title of this thread.
ROd8 TIL the Irish are the second biggest tea drinkers on the planet. They have been found to drink more tea per pound than both China and India combined.
wLnp6 TIL A recent report found the average cost of groceries for a family of four in Nunavut is $19,760 per year while almost half of Inuit adults earn less than $20,000 annually