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TIL that Cincinnati has a “ghost” subway - a set of tunnels and stations that were built but never used

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d8rwQ TIL: Native Americans created a universal sign language that allowed 2/3 of all Indigenous tribes to communicate across most of North America, hundreds of years before Europeans invented a sign language of their own.
kOkNW TIL Remoras' front dorsal fins have evolved to enable them to adhere by suction to the smooth surfaces of a host animal such as whale, turtle, shark or ray. Remoras get a free ride and protection, thus saving them valuable energy.The remora is doing its host a huge service by hoovering up parasites.
VPKZ TIL - There are many examples where the food industry altered federal dietary recommendations (the “food pyramid”) in their own economic self-interest. The industries cashed in but this resulted in an overweight population.
6E74w TIL that Ted Danson performed in blackface at the Friar's Club roast of Whoopi Goldberg. He made extensive use of the n-word and ate a watermelon onstage. "Goldberg defended the sketch, explaining that she had helped write much of the material"
N9a6 TIL of Hyonseo Lee, a North Korean defector who spent years helping her family escape to South Korea. When her family was arrested and held near the embassy, Lee could not afford the bribe to free them–a stranger from abroad heard her story and paid it. Lee and her family now live in South Korea.