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TIL “microbeads” used in exfoliating soaps are actually made of plastic (and they are a major pollution problem)

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rgGw TIL that the children’s menu was created during prohibition as a result of restaurants attempting to offset the losses from going “dry”.
4XVow TIL maize, beans and squash, the three main agricultural crops of Native Americans were named Three Sisters by them for their symbiotic relationship when grown together. Maize gives structure for the beans to climb, beans provides nitrogen to the soil and squash spread-grows preventing weed growth.
rYpM TIL Ed Asner has won more Emmy Awards for performing than any other male actor
v1Em4 TIL Hans van Meegeren is a master forger known as a national hero in the Netherlands for selling his fake art to Nazis during WW2. After the war, people believed the paintings were real, and he was charged as a collaborator. To prove his innocence, he painted a new forgery at his trial. It worked.
DxRg TIL Kirsten Dunst voiced Kiki in the American dub of “Kiki’s Delivery Service” and it is her highest rated movie at 100%.