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TIL when the first settlers arrived, oysters were so numerous in the Chesapeake Bay that they were able to filter the whole bay about once a week. Their current numbers are less then 1% of what they were at that time

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dD807 TIL A lady from 15th Century England called Julia Berners is responsible for starting the tradition of giving animal groups whimsical names.
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17d TIL Michael Jackson cast real gang members for the Beat It music video and reformed them in the process
ANNko TIL Scientists at the Parkes radio telescope in Australia spent 17 years trying to identify powerful but extremely short radio bursts that would appear at seemingly random intervals. In 2015 they finally identified the cause: a microwave oven at the facility being opened prematurely.
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