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TIL subway cars after being decommissioned are dropped into the ocean to become a home for sea life.

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m1kp TIL in 1954 a Japanese trawler was caught in the fallout of the Castle Bravo nuclear test, killing its radioman; his last words were “I pray that I am the last victim of an atomic or hydrogen bomb.”
Y7gBr TIL that 2 out of the 3 members of the boy band LFO have lost their lives to cancer.
8amNG TIL - The rise in popularity of chopsticks among Asian cultures can be partly attributed to Confucianism (reduced use of table knives) and to rice being more clumpy and gummy so there is less need for spoons.
8ad4P TIL The biggest fine awarded by UK's Ofcom was for part of a radio show called Sweary Hangman, in which a 9 year old girl was prompted to repeat the phrase 'soapy tit wank' 3 times
DxPp TIL that Reddit is latin for “He gives back or he returns”