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TIL The average human consumes 70,000 particles of microplastics a year, this is equivalent to 1 credit card a WEEK.

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QNEwk TIL the classic pink flamingo lawn ornament, commissioned by New England Plastics Co. and designed by Don Featherstone in 1957, outnumbered real flamingos 7-to-1 by 1993.
jvQR TIL The British pound is the world’s oldest currency still in use - it is 1200 years old.
KOGDw TIL “Our local group alone is 10 million light-years in diameter, containing the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, along with about 50 dwarf galaxies, but that only accounts for 0.00000000001 percent of the observable universe.”
Jaxl TIL That Glenn Beck Smoked Weed Everyday for 15 years starting at age 16
VMJmk TIL the producers of the movie Das Boot used a life size mock-up of a U-Boat for the exterior shots. One morning the crew woke up to find it missing, only to later learn that a certain filmmaker named Steven Spielberg had rented it for his movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and no one had told them