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TIL On average, 4 shipping containers drop into the ocean every day.

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awV1Z TIL statistically British teeth are healthier than American teeth. One of the reasons Americans believe they have healthier teeth is due to an advertising campaign over 100 years ago.
NXpb8 TIL that since 1959, in the United States, the inch is based on a specific metric length. One inch is defined as being exactly 25.4 millimeters.
LQVKp TIL during WWI Momčilo Gavrić at the age of 8 lost his entire family to a heinous war crime, he then enlisted in a nearby artillery unit and identified the location of the enemy soldiers that killed his family, then participated in the bombardment that wiped out that entire enemy unit
5YGVR TIL in 1943 to save copper for WWII production, the US Mint made pennies from steel with a coating of zinc. These pennies had a silver appearance rather than the traditional copper coloring.
ANQBn TIL: The first recorded Olympic champion was a cook named Coroebus, who won the stadion race in the ancient Olympics in 776 BC. The stadion race was a sprint of about 200 meters and was the only event in the first Olympic Games.