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Today I learned that used tennis balls from Wimbledon are recycled as housing for harvest mice to help them protect them.

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ANxxa TIL the first ever text message in history is "Merry Christmas"
5YMe8 TIL the first photo of a black hole was taken in 1992
M7grb TIL though it's long been prized for its clarity and luxurious feel, "crystal glass," also called Lead Glass, contains up to 40% lead by mass. It has been proposed that the historic association of gout with the upper class was, in part, caused by their extensive use of lead crystal to store alcohol.
lGXG TIL that 3 people died while in a flight simulator in a flight safety building, due to a plane crashing into it.
rRLRd TIL that Bangladesh, despite being the 8th most populous country in the world (ahead of Russia, Mexico, and Japan), is smaller than Oman, New Zealand, or Uruguay, and is by far the most densely populated country that isn't a city-state