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TIL that there is an ancient ocean under the Appalachian Mts called the Iapetus Ocean that pre-dates the Atlantic Ocean and salt is harvested from it.

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jNpln TIL The NYPD has a beekeeping unit with 2 full time officers whose job it is to focus solely on any issues related to bees in the city.
rRYWd TIL Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr., was the first African American astronaut. The project he worked on would go on to become the International Space Station. He died in the backseat of his plane while teaching a cadet how to fly 50 years ago this past Friday (December 8, 1967). He was 32 years old.
QA9d TIL: A chimpanzee, which was raised as a human being, by a psychologist. Learnt sign language, dressed herself and ate with silverware, was shipped away to assimilate in wild, expressed “hurt” via. sign, and later died.
gMvd9 TIL that hurricanes used be named only after women. After feminist groups protested over the implied slur that women alone were tempestuous and unpredictable, men’s names were also used for such weather phenomena beginning in 1979.
w6Jo TIL that a prostitute in Bonn (Germany) has to buy a 6 Euro ticket from the city’s “Sex Meter” to legally work at night and is then guarded by a private security company. Not paying for the ticket can get you banned from working there and a $145 fine