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TIL speeding is attributable to about 3% of accidents. Less than falling asleep at the wheel.

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VMRok TIL Humans have consumed 9.2b tons of plastic. Out of it, 6 billion will never meet a recycling bin, and there’s no infrastructure to deal with it. That’s equivalent to the weight of one billion elephants.
loJPG TIL that the lead singer of the punk rock band The Offspring, Bryan Keith "Dexter" Holland, is also a molecular biologist and he is a licensed pilot. He also has his own brand of hot sauce named Gringo Bandito.
woOwE TIL that in the 1970s Hostess paid DC to run ads in DC comic books, and each one was a one-page comic that led to the villain getting stopped thanks to Hostess fruit pies or Twinkies.
6Eem8 TIL Humpty Dumpty was originally a cannon, which fell off its wall during a siege in the English Civil War.
16R9r TIL that the Nobel Peace Prize comes with almost 1 million USD