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TIL a healthy coral reef will sound like popcorn popping

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ge0L TIL: “For the health of strippers,” Louisiana tried to pass a bill limiting strippers’ age and weight to under 28 yo and under 160 lbs.
4ekb TIL of “Operation Flex”, which took place in California in which an FBI informant pretended to be a radical Muslim, the members of the mosque quickly got a restraining order on him and reported him to the FBI.
5ARr TIL There is a mysterious hole in Nova Scotia. Excavation started in 1795, but to this day what is at the bottom of the pit remains unknown.
rNYZw TIL of Solomon Lefschetz, a mathematician who lost both of his hands in an industrial accident. He would go on to revolutionize algebraic topology and algebraic geometry.
WB5B TIL that out of 46,000 discovered species of spider, only a single one has been found to be a herbivore.