› added 5 years ago

227

TIL Microplastics in Fresh Water Are Mostly Laundry Lint

Read more sciencemag.org

via reddit.com

jBXR TIL Walmart profits $17.20 billion a year. Their employees receive $2.66 billion in government help each year.
xVav5 TIL at 19 years old, Chris Pratt was waiting tables at a Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurant in Maui when he was scouted by a director. At the time he was living in his van and had previously studied acting at a community college for only a few weeks.
lRaa TIL that the average age that someone starts watching hardcore pornography is 11. Also, 4 out of 5 16-year-olds regularly access porn.
9Y66m TIL former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas claimed that people acting on the orders of President Richard Nixon were trying to plant marijuana in his yard so that they could stage a televised raid and force him to retire from the court, with his replacement appointed by Nixon.
awZJo TIL that Giant Anteaters have killed people. There have been 2 documented attacks in the wild both resulted in the death of people hunting them. The anteaters slashed at the hunters with their long claws, hitting the femoral artery, making the victims bleed to death.