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TIL 10 000 Containers Fall Off Ships Every Year, That’s more one an hour.

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9wgP7 TIL That at the time of his death, the inventor of kitty litter was worth about a hundred million dollars (or $849 million today, adjusted for inflation).
7KEp TIL the number of syllables in each lyrical phrase of the song Lateralus by Tool correspond with the fibonacci sequence.
WkYnN TIL Hitler used an arson attack on the German parliament to justify taking away most civil liberties in Germany, including habeas corpus, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, the right of free association, public assembly and the secrecy of the post and telephone
9we6Q TIL there is a significant portion of humans who stand up to wipe their ass?
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