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TIL that the movie “Psycho” is the first American film to show a toilet on screen. It’s also the first American film in which we hear a toilet being flushed.

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KObXw TIL that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch contains around 80 million kg of floating plastic debris of various size and shape, principally made of Polyethylene and Polypropylene, accumulated in an area 3 times the size of continental France.
mx4vP TIL on January 22, 1943 in Spearfish, South Dakota, the temperature rose from -4 at 7:32 a.m. to 45 degrees–a rise of 49 degrees—in just two minutes. A couple of hours later, it plunged from 54 back to -4 degrees–a change of 58 degrees in 27 minutes
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7rmdp TIL New York City’s tap water is full of copepods (tiny crustaceans). Because of this, the water is technically not kosher.
kdd TIL that the Star Wars theme was released as a single with the Cantina song, and reached number 1 on the U.S. Hot 100 in 1977.