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TIL There’s an ecological push to eat more lionfish, the invasive species causes environmental havoc, and eating them could be the best way to control the threat.

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dW67 TIL Sears sold mail-order homes, between 1908 and 1940, as part of their Modern Homes program. They arrived as a kit, and included many modern conveniences, such as indoor plumbing. Some of these homes still exist today.
D1GgJ TIL about Henry Tandey, the most highly decorated British private of World World I, who also became famous for supposedly not killing Adolf Hitler, then a German soldier, when he encountered him in Marcoing, France. However, Tandey's biographer and others believe the story is an urban legend.
Oj74 TIL in 1937 during the Battle of Nanking, two Japanese officers held a contest to be the first to kill 100 people with a sword. Both were later executed on war crimes charges.
vPXox TIL of Ye's Optical Lattice Clock. It loses one second every 15 billion years, making it the world's most accurate clock.
890K TIL the longest film ever made (Modern Times Forever, 2011) has a duration of 240 hours or 10 days, and shows centuries of decay, compressed into the span of the film.