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TIL that cigarette butts are environmentally toxic and the most littered item in the world

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ZpPWp TIL that Scientists observed a wild orangutan (‘Rakus’) locate a plant used in SE Asia for pain & inflammation, pluck & chew up its leaves, apply plant juices to an injury on its right cheek, and then use the chewed plant as a bandage. Photos showed his wound closed within a month without problems:
b64b0 TIL a $100 dollar bill costs the government just ¢12.6 to make
xNK5 TIL Microsoft threatened 17 year old Mike Rowe with a lawsuit after the young man launched a website named MikeRoweSoft.com
KKE9 TIL in 2007, Serbian vandals drove a stake into former president Slobodan Milosevic’s grave to prevent him from coming back as a vampire.
ADNbg TIL The AC/DC album Black In Black is the second best selling album of all time in worldwide sales.