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TIL that 85% of all Microplastics are Synthetic Clothing fibers (from loads of laundry)

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wZJE TIL that Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro both stopped by(separately) John Belushi’s Hotel Room to do coke hours before he died.
GZgg TIL Weird Al owes much of his success to a radio show host named Dr. Demento
DQX1r TIL that until infant pain was formally recognized in 1987, it was widely assumed that infants didn't feel pain, leading to many undergoing major surgeries without anesthesia.
neJmB TIL that Basque sailors didn’t die of scurvy because they drank 3 liters of cider everyday which, unbeknownst to them, contains vitamin C.
1ZDr TIL A swimmer in the 2000 Olympics had taken up swimming only eight months earlier and had practiced in a 20m(66ft) pool at a hotel. Before the Olympics he had never even seen a 50m(160ft) swimming pool. He won his heat and today he’s the coach of the Equatorial Guinea swimming squad.