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TIL there are millions of chemical bombs lying in our oceans after being dumped there after the first and second world war, because authorities didn’t have a way to dispose of them properly.

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lyK7 TIL the TV show “The Amazing World of Gumball” had a Chinese ripoff called “Miracle Star”. Gumball recently aired an episode calling out and attacking its Chinese ripoff.
xY55 TIL that Willie Nelson’s (ex) wife sewed him up in a sheet and beat him with a broomstick. His comment: “She was a very classy, ingenious, brilliant lady, and I was a problem at times.”
4XVkb TIL Russia has been stripped of 51 Olympic medals due to doping violations , 1/3 of the global total.
BA9W TIL that the average attention span for humans seems to have dropped from 12 seconds in the year 2000, to 8 seconds in 2016.
87Ga TIL that In 2010, a Colorado money manager maimed a cyclist in a hit-and-run. He escaped felony charges by arguing that the smell of his new Mercedes-Benz had aggravated his sleep apnea, which briefly knocked him out.