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TIL Thousands of shipping containers a year become “large floating objects” in the ocean.

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mx7Ao TIL Between 30% to 40% of firefighters in California's state fire department that fights much of the wildfires across the state are prison inmates.
W75AN TIL that in 2009, the word Muggeseggele, meaning the scrotum of a housefly, was voted as the most beautiful word in Swabian German in a readers' survey by the largest newspaper in Stuttgart, well ahead of any other term.
mxPVR TIL NHL legend Maurice Richard was so beloved in Canada that he was named one of the inaugural members of the Order of Canada, had a short story written about him adapted into an animated film by the National Film Board, and was the first non-politician to be given a state funeral.
78n0p TIL Samosas (fried, potato based triangular savoury South Asian snack) is banned in Somalia since 2011 due to Samosa's resemblance to the Christian trinity.
QN0Ad TIL that the world's quietest room, an anechoic chamber located at Orfield Laboratories in Minnesota, can drive people to the point of madness. The room is so quiet people can hear their own blood flowing and even the sound of their organs functioning, which can be disorienting and unsettling.