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TIL that some of the children who sang in Another Brick In The Wall launched a bid in 2004 for thousands of pounds in unpaid royalties

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p8ryG TIL that cigarette butts are the single greatest source of ocean trash. Cigarette butts have long been the most collected item on the world’s beaches, with a total of more than 60 million collected over 32 years.
7RjP TIL Salvation Army’s media director for part of Australia stated in 2012 that homosexual people “deserve to die.”
oRwr8 TIL that some creatures such as frog embryos can change their DNA using sound. We are experimenting with using sound for DNA changes now and this may lead to human DNA alterations without splicing, cutting or intruding into the body manually.
jJON TIL that when rescuing the Ethiopian jews an Israeli 747 broke the world record for passenger load for planes at 1,122 people. 2 of whom were born mid flight.
NXLaN TIL that the top secret SOG operators in the Vietnam war had trouble hiding their boot prints on Viet Cong trails, even trying special boots with bare footprint soles. They eventually collected 20,000 pairs of used boots from US combat hospitals and air dropped them to the NVA and Viet Cong.