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TIL 80 percent of American seafood is imported.

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xBpD TIL the world’s first fully-painted, feature-length film is an animated movie about the life of Vincent van Gogh made up of 56,800 stop-motion paintings. Years in the making, it is scheduled to open this summer on the 125th anniversary of his death.
7mwO TIL that China’s Three Gorges Damn has slowed the Earth’s rotation by 0.06 microseconds
8aVAG TIL that HTTP error code 451 (unavailable for legal reasons, e.g. censorship) is a reference to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
v1M18 TIL the first King to travel around the world was King Kalākaua of Hawaii
AELg TIL Steven Spielberg initially considered filming Schindler’s List entirely in German and Polish, but decided he “wanted people to watch the images, not read subtitles. There’s too much safety in reading. It would have been an excuse to take their eyes off the screen and watch something else.”