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TIL: Bottled water contains hundreds of thousands of plastic bits

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m15aM TIL: Andrew Bonar Law is the only Canadian to have served as Prime Minister of the UK. He was born in New-Brunswick which was a British colony at the time.
X0J56 TIL that Louis Armstrong's song "What a Wonderful World" failed to make the record charts in the USA on its initial release in 1967, because the president of his new record label refused to promote it. It finally made the US Top 40 in 1988 after being featured in the movie "Good Morning Vietnam".
l77D1 TIL MIT engineers made the first-ever plane with no moving parts by using electricity to ionize air (2018).
VJMp TIL Olympic Gold Medals are 92.5% silver
Eygo TIL in WW2 German field marshal Erwin Rommel would often personally pilot a reconnaissance aircraft over the battle to view the situation. Although Rommel did not have a pilot’s license, his skill with machinery made him a competent pilot, and none of the Luftwaffe officers had the nerve to stop him