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TIL two surfers Andrew Cooper and Alex Schulze started the 4ocean movement and now has 27 operations around the world and has collected 4 million pounds of trash since 2017.

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J11vv TIL that The Osmonds originally formed, in part, to raise money to buy hearing aids for their deaf brothers Tom and Virl.
JVn1 TIL Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett was also the co-creator of the surreal, post-apocalyptic comic Tank Girl
dDvBZ TIL Robin Williams was the one who suggested that Sid Meier‘s name should be put on each of his games
Eg98V TIL that the oldest known impacted wisdom tooth belonged to a European woman who lived between 13,000 and 11,000 BCE. Molar impaction was a rare condition prior to the modern era: it became ten times more common after the introduction of soft, processed foods.
JY5yj TIL Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI got married "by proxy". The wedding took place in Vienna, with Marie Antoinette's brother standing in for the groom at the altar. Louis was in France at the time