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TIL cigarette butts are the most polluted items in the world, accounting for 2 billion pounds of waste per year. To combat this, entrepreneurs developed eco-friendly butts that decompose in 2-6 weeks, then sprout into trees.

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Oogb6 TIL that the archaic study of head shape (Phrenology) is responsible for many sayings. Intelligent people had a "highbrow", stupid people had a "lowbrow", people with balanced attributes' heads were "well-rounded" and psychiatrists would reduce areas of people's brains and were called "shrinks".
xLR0 TIL of Shavarsh Karapetyan, a world champion swimmer who after finishing his routine 12 mile run heard a bus crash into a lake. He then swam down 33 ft and one by one saved 20 passengers. After receiving multiple wounds, he was in a coma for 46 days, which subsequently ended his professional career.
RZy4 TIL A single misplaced comma created a giant legal loophole in the 1972 U.S Tariff Act, costing the government $1,000,000.
e5W4 TIL Disney murdered scores of Lemmings for the ‘suicide scene’ in the 1958 movie White Wilderness. Producers pushed and threw them off a cliff while shooting footage of the cruelty, then framed it as a natural occurrence for the audience.
OWje TIL Japan has over 100 active volcanoes, about 10% of all the world’s active volcanoes.