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TIL in the 1970s American authorithies along a nonprofit group founded by fishermen, threw around 2 million old tires into the coast of Ft. Lauderdale to creat an artificial reef which would help the growth of new coral. Instead they created an ecological disaster.

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Oa4R TIL in Finland, It is a legal requirement to have your headlights on, whether in summer or winter, in sunlight or darkness, even under the midnight sun.
bYKa TIL the First Family pays for most of its living expenses in the White House, including groceries, toiletries and some staff.
QJNka TIL that a man built and planted an extremely complex bomb in a Nevada Casino - the FBI could not disarm it, and the controlled detonation blew up most of the Casino.
lodb7 TIL researchers have developed an IVF-like process called IVG (in vitro gametogenesis) - The process uses skin cells to create human egg and sperm cells. It could allow sterile parents to conceive and same sex couples could eventually have children who are biologically related to both parents.
ADRMl TIL Eleven and Twelve do not follow the teen pattern because they come from Old English terms that mean "one left after ten" and "two left after ten," or "ain-lif" and "twa-lif," due to the fact that these numbers were used commonly, unlike the other teens, and therefore developed much earlier.