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

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1rV7 TIL Chadwick(the discoverer of the neutron) was a student of Rutherford (discoverer of the proton) who was the student of Thomson (the discoverer of the electron)
wLZyP TIL all audience members on Judge Judy are paid actors and in order to be able to attend a taping of the show, the actors need to be a member of the Screen Actor's Guild (although some exceptions are occasionally made)
lPDA TIL As part of their final test, fugu chefs have to eat the fugu that they cut in the exam.
ZpWJR TIL the ghost "Slimer" from the first Ghostbusters movie was not named until the 1986 animated television series "The Real Ghostbusters".
envL TIL that the CIA planned a number of “terrorist” attacks in the US to justify an invasion of Cuba in 1962. It was rejected by Kennedy.