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TIL that plastic bags wind up at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

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8vlK TIL Fedex uses the United States Postal Service to ship almost a third of it’s packages in order to save money.
8yeX TIL of Project COLDFEET, a 1962 operation where two CIA operatives were airdropped onto an abandoned Soviet research station on an ice floe, retrieved information on advanced submarine detection systems, and were extracted via the Fulton Skyhook recovery system to a modified B-17.
pWl8 TIL that French grammarian Dominique Bouhours’s last words are “I am about to – or I am going to – die: either expression is correct.”
kWX4 TIL the ex-bassist of Nirvana and Soundgarden went on to become an Army Ranger and a Special Forces Green Beret.
rR49o TIL that the Portuguese man of war isn’t actually a jellyfish. It’s called a siphonophore, made up of several specialized organisms of the same species. They each perform different functions and can’t survive alone.