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

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VBBvk TIL That after the ITV kid's show Rainbow was cancelled in 1991, the host Geoffrey Hayes worked as a shelf stacker in Sainsbury's and as a taxi driver. Despite trying to get into serious acting, supposedly directors couldn't disassociate him from Rainbow.
MeX7V TIL of a squirrel monkey named Miss Baker, who was one of the first animals to be launched into space by the United States and recovered alive. She lived to the age of 27, becoming the longest living squirrel monkey, and her tombstone often has a banana or two on top of it.
MoeA TIL During the Chernobyl meltdown, 3 people gave their lives diving in a radioactive pool, to open a pipe and prevent an explosion 10 times bigger than the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.
b958N TIL the Nazis were very close to developing plutonium, a material used to make atomic bombs. However, the factory producing it was bombed by a team of 11 Norwegian saboteurs, one of them stopping the operation to find his glasses at one point, completely destroying the equipment related.
8avG TIL the pope drinks 4 cans of Fanta per day.