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TIL highly modified egg whites can filter microplastics from seawater

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eg1E TIL that Muhammad Ali was invited to North Korea in 1995 with a collection of other athletes. Though he didn’t speak much during the visit, at one function, as officials claimed they could take out the US or Japan whenever they wanted to, Ali declared loudly “no wonder we hate these motherfuckers.”
8a4EZ TIL that a dog’s age is not 7 times human age, but: 16(ln(dog’s age))+31. It’s a natural logarithmic curve, so a 1-year old dog is about 31 in human years, and a 10-year old is about 68. (Link has calculator!)
Ev6w TIL that usury, the practice of giving loans that unfairly enrich the lender (e.g., interest), is condemned in most religious texts, including those of Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and others.
nBro TIL During WWII a fully grown Reindeer lived on a British submarine, ate a navigation chart and got so fat that it couldn’t get back out.
6Vbl TIL the algorithm the ants use to discover how much food there is available is essentially the same as that Internet protocols use to discover how much bandwidth is available for transferring a file.