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TIL That the amount of petroleum used to create one plastic bag is enough to drive a car for approximately 375 ft.

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Bvar TIL that the graves of the first and last British soldier to die in the First World War face each other and are only 7 yards apart from each other. The placing of the graves were not intentional.
r0nW TIL Britney Spears’ father has a permanent conservatorship on her daughter, which is usually reserved for the severely mentally ill. Britney has reportedly stated that she really wants to quit the show business, but she can’t make any personal or financial decisions and is forced to continue.
yV7EM TIL There was once a highly contagious disease that caused people to start dancing uncontrollably!
9XGm TIL Stan Lee’s use of alliterative names in his comics (e.g., Peter Parker, Bruce Banner, Matt Murdock, etc.) was due to his poor memory. He thought that using names that started with the same letter would help him remember the character’s whole name.
R71nl TIL there are 177,147 ways to tie a necktie. Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, a mathematician in Stockholm concluded this number by trying each possible way.