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TIL the DSV Alvin is a ship of Theseus, with every component having been replaced over the last 58 years of service. It has been used to explore hydrothermal vents, the Titanic, and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. One time a swordfish attacked it. The fish was later cooked and eaten.

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JN8m TIL Israel’s first nuclear weapons were made from Uranium it had stolen from the United States
VK8m TIL that the Archipelago Sea (Finland) contains the most amount of islands compared to other archipelagos with estimates of up to 50,000 masses of land from inhabited islands to above sea-level rocks.
EgybP TIL McDonald's was fined $4 million in 1999 for not reporting 400+ injuries of children using Big Mac Climber jungle gyms, where children climbed up a tube from the ground and played between two giant metal hamburger buns. The last Big Mac Climbers were removed from McDonald's playgrounds in 1997.
yRVv TIL that producers feared Johnny Depp’s portrayal of Jack Sparrow would kill the Pirates of the Caribbean, with the head of Disney Studios exclaiming “Goddammit, Johnny Depp’s ruining the film!”
0dZOy TIL that the Disney movie "Big Hero 6" was based on a 90s Marvel Comic. In the original, Baymax was an android dragon with the brain of Hiro's dead father.