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TIL that the earths ozone layer is on track to healing completely within 50 years.

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ne8p7 TIL the drug cartel under Pablo Escobar spent an estimated $2,500 a month on rubber bands needed to hold stacks of bills together and supplied 80% of the world's cocaine and smuggled 15 tons of cocaine into the US per day at the height of his power.
6N8w TIL that researchers from the University of Sheffield polled 250 children regarding their opinions on clowns;all 250 children in the study, whose ages ranged between four and sixteen, reported that they found clowns frightening and disliked clowns as part of hospital decor.
LQLgd TIL about the one electron theory, proposed by physicist John Wheeler, which posits that there is only one electron in the universe, moving backwards and forwards in time.
PY5mO TIL that Charles Lindbergh was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor
1a1Lr TIL that Zoe Saldana has apologized for playing Nina Simone in a movie. God forbid an actress pretend to be someone in a movie. Will she now have to apologize for playing Neytiri in Avatar, Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy?