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TIL the worlds biggest operator of luxury cruises emitted more sulphur dioxides than all of Europes cars...multiplied by ten.

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wLPOJ TIL the phrase "no strings attached” is directly tied to 18th century fabric merchants who would mark flaws in woven cloth by tying small strings to the bottom of the bolts at the locations where flaws were present.
wLZv6 TIL of the discovery of hundreds of fossilized Pterosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. The eggs belong to a previously known species of pterosaur that lived in China more than a hundred million years ago. One such fossil suggests a wingspan of 36 feet making it one of the largest animals ever to fly
neGeG TIL A soviet defector predicted the current state of America 40 years ago (cultural decline, marxism, socialism) It was all carefully planned. "Our goal was to demoralize people so completely that they would deny fact, of course these people would be purged once the socialist goal was accomplished"
L0Dd TIL neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote about a man who after a night involving amphetamines, cocaine and PCP awoke with a extremely heightened sense of smell. Sacks revealed years later that it was in fact himself.
Z90B TIL that a lost wallet is more likely to be returned if you have a photo of a baby in it. In a 2009 study, 88% of wallets with a baby photo were returned, followed by wallets with a photo of a puppy (53%), family (48%) and an old couple (28%). Only 15% of control wallets were returned.