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TIL Microplastics in Fresh Water Are Mostly Laundry Lint

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B9yK TIL it was assumed Amelia Earhart died 80 years ago(July 2, 1937) after crashing her plane in an attempt to fly around the globe and her remains were lost to deep waters.Due to a skeleton found on an island, an aircraft recovery group now believes she may have lived months as a castaway
E6EV TIL that in 1983 Mr. T was the White House’s Santa Clause.
VMgdZ TIL Liechtenstein and Haiti developed identical national flags independently of each other. No one realized until the two countries competed against each other in the 1936 Summer Olympics under the same flag.
x6981 TIL that the word 'Rizz' was Oxford's word of the year for 2023, beating the words Swiftie, situationship and de-influencing.
9YG1r TIL Voyager 1 and 2 both travel at 35,000mph, and are about 900,000 miles further away from Earth each day. They are now more than 10 billion miles away since launch in 1977.