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TIL 10% of lobsters coming across a lobster trap will enter; 94% of that 10% escapes. The inefficiency of lobster traps has inadvertently saved lobsters from overfishing.

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JY1av TIL the reason you can't go into the arm of the Statue of Liberty is because of the 1916 German attack on Tom Black Island.
WNy8 TIL the fastest speed a human being has ever attained was when Apollo 10 returned from the moon at 24,791 mph (36,360 feet/second). This is slightly faster than going down to the Marianas Trench in one second.
4QoN TIL during renovations on his house, a thigh bone was found in Benjamin Franklin’s house. In total, over 1,200 bones were pulled up, making up the remains of 6 children and 4 adults.
epyXL TIL Formula one race car driver Alex Zanardi cheated near death three times. In 2001 he had both legs amputated in a racing crash,in 2020 he suffered head trauma while handcycling and was in a medically induced coma, and in 2022 his home caught fire and he was hospitalized for smoke inhalation.
X0vyP TIL: the cover of Caldor's 1998 "Toy Book" holiday ad featured two boys playing Scrabble. One of the words on the board was "RAPE."