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TIL that decommissioned New York City Subway cars are dumped into the ocean to provide homes for sea creatures.

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grjQA TIL That many competitive Scrabble players quit playing competitively after hundreds of “offensive” words were banned, including racial slurs, sexuality and gender insults.
E1AXd TIL Lydia O'Leary, a woman who was insecure due to a large birthmark on her face, created a product to hide it that was inspired by her experiments with oil paint. She was granted a patent for her concealer in 1932. It's the only foundation with a USPTO patent.
j6VVR TIL that priest Father Damien worked in Hawaii for 16 years, providing comfort to the lepers. He built homes and he treated lepers with his medical expertise. He prayed and comforted the dying. He later contracted leprosy but continued to give to the people and helped improve an orphanage.
E1poW TIL that a woman named Chiara Vigo is the only person in the world who knows how to make sea silk.
R59V1 TIL about Terry Davis, a schizophrenic engineer who was"told by God" to create an operating system, resulting in TempleOS. And then there was that incident with alien artifacts on his X-ray.