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TIL that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of many “trash islands” floating in our oceans. The GPGP alone contains nearly 3.5 million tons of trash which is mostly bits of plastic.

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696vY TIL Henry Ford is the only American mentioned in Mein Kampf.
1NB4 TIL Kurt Gödel, famous mathematician and contemporary of Einstein, believed there was a loophole in the U.S. Constitution where the U.S. could secretly become a dictatorship.
Oo0Ng TIL the Skipper’s real name on Gilligan’s Island was Jonas Grumby, but it was rarely mentioned after the pilot episode.
kgPE TIL a study found that drinking coffee may “undo” liver damage. Researchers analyzed data from nine previously published studies with a total of more than 430,000 participants and found that drinking two additional cups of coffee a day was linked to a 44% lower risk of developing liver cirrhosis
GD7E TIL that in 1925 con man Victor Lustig sold the Eiffel Tower to a scrap metal dealer