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TIL there is a Coral Trafficking Task Force here in The Florida Keys.

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6E688 TIL about an experimental social movement created by high school history teacher Ron Jones in 1967 to explain how the German population could accept the actions of the Nazi regime. It quickly got out of control and he had to stop it. There was even a resistance movement that had formed.
0w7LM TIL IQ tests only measure your intelligence relative to everyone else. If we as a group all got smarter or dumber, the IQ numbers would stay the same.
r6e TIL that Coke contains phosphoric acid to prevent vomiting due to overwhelming sweetness.
M7g5b TIL Rocky Marciano boxed and defeated Harry Haft, who used to fight people to the death at Auschwitz.
yVgGw TIL in 2009 a Maryland wastewater treatment plant was found to be inhabited by over 100,000,000 orb-weaving spiders, the largest recorded aggregation in history. The entire facility was covered in dense sheets and volumes of webbing, leading to it being nicknamed it the "Back River Arachnotopia".