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

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jNBkX TIL A new school textbook that aims to teach boys how to be "masculine" men has been released in China. Called "Little Men," the book covers the differences between boys and girls, the importance of the father-son relationship as well as the importance of interacting with nature and managing money
e7B6 TIL that Peter Popoff, a popular televangelist was caught using a wireless ear piece in which his wife would tell him information about the person he was “healing” in order to create the illusion that he was really healing people. He was exposed by James Randi in 1987 and has since been bankrupt.
neor9 TIL: Bill Nye the Science Guy is related to the founder of Nye Lubricants, whose replacement whale oil led to the international ban against whaling.
7rexZ TIL When you stop smoking weed, you're going to experience a huge increase in your dreams and their vividness due to your brain trying to catch up on all the missed REM sleep for the next 2-7 weeks.
P1xJG TIL renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright's houses were famously leaky.