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TIL that overfishing in US waters is at a historic low, with only 16% of US stocks overfished compared to 63% globally, and that 39 US fisheries have recovered from overfishing since the 1990s

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P1EJV TIL in 2015 a US University suspended a Jewish student who had posted a Hindu Swastika on his residence hall's University board. He had learnt about the symbol on a spring break trip to India.
pYByZ TIL Ireland limits taxation on writers, artist, composers, painters, etc. for their contribution to culture
R7Pgl Today I learned of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian who lost his passport and was stranded in Charles de Gaulle Airport for 18 years.
kJBWB TIL about The Pig Precinct. In 1972 after the Iowa state supreme court ordered legislative redistricting a new district was created that did not have any human residents, just pigs. They were the only full-time residents housed in an experimental animal disease laboratory.
4XyNX TIL The largest hula hoop ever hula hooped was 17ft wide andhula hooped by Getti Kehayova