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TIL the Kingdome in Seattle (former home of the Mariners) will finally be paid off in two years. It was demolished 14 years ago.

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v1vyB TIL that 160 container ships have the same carbon footprint as all the cars in the world combined, yet the emissions from container ships are not included in global carbon emissions testing as they are typically beyond national boundaries
e7Xn TIL Charles Schultz killed off a disliked Peanut with an axe.
WknX TIL in 1970 a disgruntled postgraduate student deliberately infected his roommates with Ascaris suum, a parasitic nematode. This was the first documented human infection by this species.
xOwo TIL an African man was placed in a cage as part of an exhibit at the Bronx Zoo in 1906. He shared it with a monkey. He killed himself in 1916.
nQNd TIL: Jason Lee of “My Name Is Earl” used to be a devout Scientologist, when he found out his first wife had read an anti-Scientology book he sent her a one-paragraph “disconnection letter” ending their relationship. As of 2016, Lee no longer practices Scientology.