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TIL Five countries all in Asia are responsible for 60% of all the junk in our oceans

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KOe0G TIL that from 2005 to 2013 there were two Albert IIs reigning as heads of state: Albert II, King of the Belgians, and Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Wkbl9 TIL that the Horn of Africa is NOT at the bottom of Africa, around South Africa. It is around Ethiopia to the NE, below the Red Sea.
nDed TIL that there is strong belief that James Buchanan may have been the first gay President of the United States. Never married, Buchanan had a close relationship with another man for many years which he referred to as a “communion”. Andrew Jackson once called the pair “Miss Nancy and Aunt Fancy”.
GY0dg TIL Astronauts threw a taco party to celebrate their first harvest of seven Hatch peppers grown on the International Space Station, part of a larger experiment in growing fresh fruits and vegetables to supplement the packaged food sent on space missions.
1aEaO TIL that the 1912 short "Saved from the Titanic" was made only 29 days after the sinking of the RMS Titanic and starred one of the survivors. It is now lost.