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Today I learned that 79% of Americans are literate and that 54% of Americans read below a 6th grade level

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kOj0d TIL Stephen King's debut as a movie director was to make a film based on a short horror story he wrote about killer cars. He did the whole film coked out of his mind before swearing never to direct again.
89ra TIL Michael Fassbender had to choose between the roles of the Lizard in “The Amazing Spider-Man” and Magneto in “X-men: First Class”
9wpKp TIL there have been five great mass extinctions on earth and we may living through the sixth mass extinction
VBRLB TIL the last european battle of WW2 was fought by Croatian fascists against Yugoslav partisans fighting weeks after the surrender of Germany
Y78BW TIL that 85% of all Microplastics are Synthetic Clothing fibers (from loads of laundry)