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TIL a 19 year old developed a way to clean the plastic out of the oceans 2000x times faster than if they used boats and nets

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JYw61 TIL 98% of adoptions in Japan are of Adult Men aged 20-30
9YeOr TIL that during the Revolution, British Capt. Patrick Ferguson refused an opportunity to shoot a passing American officer in the back. Historians say there's a very good chance that the officer was George Washington. Ferguson was later killed at the battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina.
0y7p TIL that on September 4, 2008, the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice ruled that Wal-Mart de Mexico, the Mexican subsidiary of Wal-Mart, must cease paying its employees in part with vouchers redeemable only at Wal-Mart stores.
4kx1R TIL that Shakespeare might’ve actually been a black jewish woman, her name Emilia Bassano, who was thought to be the mastermind behind all of Shakespeare’s writings. I’m still in awe.
a8MnJ TIL Akira Toriyama's biggest reason for Goku's hair going blond when he went Super Saiyan was to save work for his assistant whose time was always taken up by filling in Goku's black hair.