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TIL that 90% of the plastic waste in the ocean comes from Asia & Africa

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9w8J7 TIL of Operation Bernhard when the nazis counterfeited £134 610 810 during WWII and damaged the British economy in the years afterward
MeGpW TIL Brazilians primarily spoke their native Tupi language up to the mid 18th century because Jesuit missionaries encouraged the natives to keep their mother tongue and enforced Europeans to learn it. However, in 1759 the Jesuits were expelled by the Prime Minister and Tupi quickly went extinct.
6E8Ym TIL of Williams Syndrome, a condition that makes you friendly
4P05 TIL Steven Spielberg completed his degree course, 33 years after dropping out, by submitting Schindler’s List as his final project.
pOw4 TIL Walt Disney’s staff once presented him with a cartoon on his birthday depicting Snow White having sex with the seven dwarfs. Disney applauded at the film’s ingenuity and casually wondered who was responsible. When the blushing illustrators identified themselves, Disney fired them.