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

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dDeM8 TIL: In some US states, public urination is enough to get you onto the sex offender registry. Furthermore, 25% of of registrants are juveniles/minors, and children as young as 9 have been placed on the list.
WDRL TIL that 97% of Americans are contaminated with a widely-used sunscreen ingredient called oxybenzone that has been linked to allergies, hormone disruption, and cell damage.
4kZ1J TIL that many, many scammers are trafficking victims forced to work in "scam factories" to target innocent people against their will.
d8NGr TIL : France has an Algerian skull collection
KK6Q TIL of Ben Holmes, who faked his own death in 1980 to avoid being framed for arson, and was shot by his wife twenty years later when he confronted her for marrying another man.