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TIL there’s a lot of plastic trash in the ocean. We dumped about five shopping bags full of plastic for every foot of coastline in the world in 2010 alone.

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6VoJ TIL that Carlos Hathcock, USMC in Vietnam, crawled inch by inch, 1500 yards for 72hours straight to assassinate an NVA General, narrowly escaping being bitten by a viper, and almost being stepped on by a NVA soldier. He successfully completed the mission, and escaped the same way he had entered.
0wXpp TIL that some species of bees form a 'hot bee ball' formation around hornets in order to overheat their enemy's bodys to around 47°C and thus kill them.
Ymb7 TIL that male victims of domestic violence who called the police for help were more likely to be arrested themselves, than have their female partner arrested [PDF]
E1L5V TIL about the West Memphis Three, 3 teens convicted of the brutal murder of three 8 year old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. Damien Echols was sent to death row. On August 19, 2011, Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley were released from prison as part of a Alford plea deal.
QQOa TIL Napoleon Bonaparte thought torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is worthless.