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TIL that overall TV viewership declined by 50% since 2002

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8vnL TIL a woman named Irena Sendler, who worked in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII, saved 2,500 Jewish children’s lives by smuggling them out, she was eventually caught and tortured. In 2007 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Price. She was not selected. Al Gore won, for a slide show on global warming.
loA8a TIL that hair splinters are a thing. As bizarre as it seems to someone just learning about this, it's exactly what it sounds like. Hair piercing the skin like a normal splinter, although some people say it's more painful. And they're somewhat of an occupational hazard for hairstylists and barbers.
8aokG TIL Japan has a process to clean and check eggs for safety that allows them to be eaten raw, without getting salmonella
MX6B TIL that the fibonacci sequence can be used to roughly convert between miles and kilometers. If the nth term is a number of miles, the nth+1 term is roughly how many kilometers it is.
mmwp TIL during the Vietnam War Jane Fonda called American POW’s “hypocrits and liars” and believed they weren’t being subject to torture and inhuman treatment.