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TIL that half of all plastics ever made were made in the last 15 years

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ANDMx TIL About 1000 Sea Turtles Die Per Year From Eating Plastic and 52% Have Eaten Plastic
wjo8 TIL Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” is banned in karaoke bars in the Philippines because several singers have been killed for ‘butchering’ the song.
GAmZ4 TIL Richard Nixon's foreign policy known as "Madman Theory" revolved around the idea of acting as irrational and volatile as possible as to make irrational and suicidal threats seem feasible.
ej5n TIL the Nazis had helicopters, and even launched them from battleships. BMW was going to mass produce a battlefield version, but the factory was destroyed in a bombing raid
vDJD TIL that Saddam Hussein wrote several novels, including a romance novel that was later turned into a 20-part television series and a musical