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TIL cigarette butts are the ocean's single largest source of trash

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Bg6e TIL that Union General John Sedgwick’s last words were, “I’m ashamed of you, dodging that way. They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.” He fell over with a bullet hole under his left eye seconds later.
rM8d TIL a Pakistani squash player (Jahangir Khan) won 555 matches consecutively, the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sports as recorded by Guinness World Records.
JYrGj TIL I learned that the British Museum may hold many artifacts from around the world and also refuses to hand over the artifacts they took it from.
Z8L0v TIL that former NBA player Steve Nash was an accomplished chess player at a young age but quit in the fourth grade after making an opponent cry
PYkyL Today I learned that there's a California University and an Indiana University, and both of them are located in Pennsylvania.