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TIL We've contaminated the ocean to the point there's plastic in the sea salt we use on our food...

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Ree9 TIL The tarantula hawk stings and paralyzes a tarantula, drags the specimen to a brooding nest, and lays a single egg on the spider’s abdomen. The wasp larva hatches, creates a hole in the spider’s abdomen, and enters to feed, avoiding vital organs for as long as possible to keep the spider alive.
vRKB TIL in 1946 US researchers used prostitutes to infect prison inmates and insane asylum patients to test the effectiveness of Penicillin.
X0XOP TIL that a New Jersey statute prohibits most retailers from possessing more than two retail alcohol distribution licenses, thus making it difficult for chain stores to sell alcoholic beverages
Z8RKv TIL McDonald's buys a lot of apples. As of 2016, McDonald's sold more than 10% of all sliced apples in the US. At its core, the apple industry resurgence over the last decade can be traced, at least in part, to McDonald's.
PYOLE TIL Navajo was once in danger of losing a lot of speakers, but the Navajo nation set up programs to teach the language as well as many bilingual schools. Now there are even institutes, community colleges, and technical universities with classes in the Navajo language