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TIL that every year an estimated 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are littered worldwide, making them the most littered item on the planet.

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KYBPR TIL Nokia SMS tones actually consist of messages written in morse alphabet which reads: "SMS" and "I connecting people".
e0lNL TIL: Donkey Xote, an Spanish-Italian knockoff of the Shrek films released in 2007 promoted it’s DVD with a caption legitimately reading “From the producers who SAW Shrek”.
PYmKg TIL That movie ratings are arbitrarily handed out by a full-time Board of 8 to 13 parents in Los Angeles, CA. The only qualifications are "parenthood experience" and possessing an "intelligent maturity".
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