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TIL highly modified egg whites can filter microplastics from seawater

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LLDv TIL that Apollo 11, 14 and 15 missions have left mirrors on the surface of the Moon to calculate the distance between the Earth and the Moon by aiming a laser at them. Scientists have confirmed that the Moon is spiraling away from Earth at a rate of 3.8 cm per year.
VoYm TIL that the birth rate in Japan is one of the lowest of any country to the point that the sales of adult diapers is greater than the sales of baby diapers.
e0yEL TIL that Hessy Levinsons Taft, who was featured in Nazi propaganda as the “Perfect Aryan Baby” was actually Jewish.
vVBr TIL According to Saudi Arabian law, women are not allowed to drive cars but are allowed to fly planes.
mxpXM TIL that during the Great Leap Forward, when Chinese sparrows were deemed a pest and tried to be exterminated, some of the sparrows found refuge at the Polish Embassy in Beijing. The Embassy refused to scare away the birds and was surrounded by people playing on drums causing the sparrows to die.