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TIL we have a photograph from the surface of Saturn’s moon, Titan

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M7KJA TIL that in 1942, after the U.S. military created rules that mandated prices and the length of encounters, set curfews and closed most cafes and beaches to sex workers, Honolulu's prostitutes went on strike, picketing the military HQ. After 22 days, the military caved.
loXJ7 TIL Commercial lobstermen make a v-notch in the tail flippers of egg-bearing female lobsters they encounter while fishing as a means to identify and protect a known breeder in the population from harvest.
vPPr4 TIL the TV channel TLC was originally founded by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and NASA to transmit educational lessons to children in schools.
dB7B TIL that “one moment” is actually a medieval unit of time representing ~90 seconds
0dJPL TIL INTERLINGUA is an auxiliary language that every Romance language (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Romanian) speaker can easily understand without ever studying, thanks to these languages' common Latin roots.