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TIL the average person consumes about 5 grams of microplastics every week, roughly the weight of a credit card

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wLxp1 TIL my favorite Mexican dish was originally a stew made with the human flesh of sacrificed prisoners .
KODew TIL of Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian adventurer and scientist, who became notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947, in which he sailed 8,000 km (5,000 mi) across the Pacific Ocean in a hand-built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands to prove the Ancients could've accomplished this too.
4kk4b TIL that the last pharaoh of Egypt, Caesarion, was assassinated by the first Roman emperor, Octavian Augustus, because he was afraid that he would later become a threat to himself and to the Roman empire.
7rDOO TIL Sir Henry Irving was the first actor to receive a knighthood — also, his larger-than-life attitude was so frightening his assistant, Bram Stoker, based the character Count Dracula on him
JvA1 TIL of James Randi a psychic debunker and former magician that carries and will give a check of $1,000,000 (one million dollars) to anyone that can demonstrates any form of psychic, supernatural, or paranormal ability under satisfactory observation.