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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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Z1WR TIL James Cameron made the movie Titanic to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make the movie.
6DQW TIL there’s a movie about a director disowning his work because of studio edits – that got disowned because of studio edits.
JY1n8 It’s never happened, and NASA feels confident that it never will. For one thing, astronauts generally don’t float free. Outside the ISS, they’re always attached to the spacecraft with a braided steel tether, which has a tensile strength of 1,100 pounds. If it’s a two-person spacewalk, oftentimes the astronauts are also hooked to each other.
D1WAr TIL yoda originally had a first and last name
amMA TIL The “Phone-a-Friend” lifeline on Who Wants to be a Millionaire was removed because the friend would often use the internet (instead of their own knowledge) to find the correct answer.