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TIL 'Underwater Basket Weaving' is trademarked by the US Scuba Center, who offers a 'specialty class' where you create a 'memorable souvenir'.

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kLe5 TIL that because the concrete of the Hoover Dam was poured into individual, rectangular shaped sections–rather than with a single, continuous pour–the physical dam itself will survive up to 10,000 years and be one of the last remaining visible and recognizable monuments of humans on the planet.
BgOpK Today I learned that private equity companies have been buying up vet clinics and raising the prices of care to make pet owners choose between their pets and their finances
nWmMb TIL that the inside of the earth isn't shaped like one ball inside the other. There are two LLSVPs similar to mountains.
aQPJ TIL that in Spain employees get 14 monthly paychecks a year (a double pay in Christmas and summer)
Jnxk TIL that some researchers believe that a brain parasite called Toxoplasma causes Cat Lady Syndrome and other severe mental illnesses