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TIL there’s a 19 year old who has a plan to clean up half of the pacific garbage patch in 10 years - it would remove over 77,000 tons of plastic from the ocean

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6EBnw TIL Mexico's official name is the United Mexican States
jNVmX TiL that the brain literally eats itself when it doesn't receive enough sleep
LkKYr TIL: Ustad, or T-24, a wild tiger labelled a man-eater for supposedly killing four men in nine years. Due to his aggressive nature, attributed to multiple sedations for medical concerns, he was placed in captivity to the dismay of many. He is the only tiger ever featured on India Today's cover.
QJQl9 TIL when Robert Goddard, pioneer of American rocket propulsion, proposed the concept of a moon mission in 1920, the New York Times published an editorial explaining a rocket in space could not work because there would be no air for the exhaust to push against.
7r7xP TIL the air around lightning can get up to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit. 5x hotter than the sun’s surface