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TIL that tire particles are the biggest source of microplastics and we eat and breathe them every day

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KYXNw TIL The 2002 Longshoremen Strike that delayed Christmas products that year is the reason why Christmas decorations started to appear in stores earlier each year.
e049b TIL in 2009, due to the heavy automation of flying an airplane, two pilots got so bored and distracted, that they overflew their destination by 150 miles.
x68ng TIL that in 1992 Big Screen Records releases a Tales From The Crypt Album, which included themes from various episodes, as ‎well as a track from The Crypt Keeper called The Crypt Jam
Jawj TIL After Rat-Packer Sammy Davis Jr died in 1990, his Widow soon discovered that he was nearly broke and owed back taxes. She then had his body exhumed to strip him of the $70,000 worth of jewelry he had been buried with.
VMWAp TIL the Kama Sutra was composed between 400-300 CE. It was translated into English in 1883 by Sir Richard Burton however, Burton’s edition was illegal in the US & UK until 1962. Due to this, the Kama Sutra became “one of the most pirated books in the English language.”