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TIL In Old Bridge, New Jersey, a man walking in the woods discovered 500 pounds of cooked spaghetti and macaroni dumped in the wilderness.

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mx9Kp TIL Americans produced an average of 4.5 pounds of trash per person per day. And while that may seem like a lot of trash, it was actually one of the lowest estimates since 1990. Things keep improving.
GAl0N TIL that the world's oldest known piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old.
yVAPv TIL that the RMS Carpathia, the ship that picked up the Titanic survivors, was sunk by a German submarine six years later.
wLJK8 TIL '120 Days of Sodom' was written by the Marquis de Sade in the Bastille prison in 1785. It was considered lost by the author after the storming of the Bastille. It was later rediscovered in the walls of his cell and published in 1904.
grEWL TIL that English is not the official language of the United States since it doesn’t have one, but it’s the most widely used. Some of the most widely spoken languages other than English are Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Arabic.