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TIL cigarette filters are printed to look like cork.

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l7oJG TIL that in 2004, a fake 'Sri Lankan national handball team' tricked its way into a German tournament, lost all of their matches, and then mysteriously disappeared. A farewell letter thanked the Bavarians for their hospitality.
1O7V TIL Elephants skeletal structuring is not designed to carry weight on their backs, but rather weight from below. Many Elephants end up with deformed and broken backs as a result of years of long hours spent carrying tourists around.
epV9n TIL when you eat the absolute minimum to survive on body fat alone you poop every 40-50 days
69oW TIL Mentos ran an ad campaign in Singapore urging citizens to have sex on the night of their nation’s independence day to help boost the country’s low birth-rate.
4XpD5 TIL that 90% of the plastic in the oceans come from just 10 rivers. 8 are in Asia and 2 are in Africa.There are the Yangtze, Indus, Yellow, Hai He, Ganges, Pearl, Amur and Mekong in Asia and the Nile and the Niger in Africa