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TIL a study showed we are ingesting an amount of microplastics equivalent to the weight of a credit card each week. That is roughly 5 grams

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9YObm TIL of Stella Nyanzi, a foe of Ugandan President Museveni. She posted she wished Mr. Museveni had burned up in the "acidic pus" of his mother's vagina. She was jailed for cyberharassment and bared her breasts at her sentencing, "I intended to annoy Yoweri Museveni. We are tired of his dictatorship."
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