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TIL that the exfoliating microbeads in skincare products are actually terrible for the environment - water treatment plants cannot filter them out, plastic waste found polluting the Great Lakes

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jN5yM TIL that Right Whales got their name from the fact that they conveniently float after being killed, and were thus know to whalers as the "right whale" to kill.
EWJ7 TIL that porn star Eva Angelina is also a real estate agent.
kOQbB TIL that when movies want an alien planet they shoot here.
6E4am TIL that Mark Twain authored a revised version of The Battle Hymn of the Republic in response to the US Imperialism and the Philippine-American War in 1900. Lines include "Mine eyes have seen the orgy of the launching of the Sword" and "As Christ died to make men holy, let men die to make us rich"
b6MOa TIL about SuperDisk, a floppy disk developed by 3M in 1996 with up to 240 megabytes capacity. It had little success in North America and was discontinued in 2003