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TIL hundreds of vehicles involved with Volkswagen’s Diesel-Emissions Scandal are sitting in the abandoned Pontiac Silverdome parking lot

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p8ryG TIL that cigarette butts are the single greatest source of ocean trash. Cigarette butts have long been the most collected item on the world’s beaches, with a total of more than 60 million collected over 32 years.
9Aj6 TIL that there were not just Navajos Code Talkers during World War 2. There were Cherokee, Choctaw, Lakota, Meskwaki, and Comanche Code Talkers.
mxmly TIL Instead of a jail sentence, a Texas man agreed to be sentenced to sleep in an outdoors doghouse for 30 consecutive nights, as a punishment for abusing his son.
R5l4w TIL That avant-garde British pop band "Art of Noise" takes it's name from a 1913 Futurist manifesto, called "The Art of Noise" - Which argues that the modern human ear has grown accustom to industrial noise, and now will seek more exciting sounds in music to combat this.
kWjE TIL that since 1985 the government of Saudi Arabia has destroyed about 95% of the holy city of Mecca in order to make way for the construction of hotels, apartments, parking lots, etc. There are now less than 20 structures that date back to the period of Muhammad.