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TIL that fishermen use kites and spiders' webs to catch needlefish (Solomon Islands)

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dDAQ TIL there is a mountain in Canada called “Unnecessary Mountain”.
8aXYP TIL Colonel Sanders was involved in a shootout with Matt Stewart, a local competitor, over the repainting of a sign directing traffic to his station. Stewart killed a Shell employee who was with Sanders and was convicted of murder, eliminating Sanders's competition.
Y7XZ TIL today 43 years ago today, the first ever computer-to-computer connection is completed
E1j07 TIL, during World War II, Soviet physicists Anatoly Alexandrov & Igor Kurchatov created the LPTI system, which helps in demagnetizing ships to protect them from German naval mines. By the end of 1941, the system was successfully used by Soviet Navy in the Baltic Sea and Black Sea naval campaigns.
AG07 TIL a Las Vegas mental hospital used commercial buses to “dump” more than 1,500 psychiatric patients in 48 states over five years.