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TIL People around the world are ingesting as much as 5 g – or a credit card’s worth – of microplastics a week.

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jNLPX TIL that Al “Scarface” Capone got his famous facial scars from saying “Honey, you got a nice ass and I mean that as a compliment, believe me" to a woman. He got knifed in the face and received eighty stitches for the remark because it offended her brother.
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