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TIL about an innocent man on death row

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jaKa TIL that cigarette butts are the most littered item at the world, with an estimated 4.5 trillion littered annually. Each butt can take 5 to 400 years to completely break down.
5QJP TIL that Citizen once made a series of watches powered only by the temperature difference between the wearers skin and the ambient air.
RRwQ TIL that one of the leading lights of the Gun Control movement had to withdraw his work from publication and had a prestigious national history award rescinded due to false, unethical and fraudulent research
5V7Mp TIL - the Kamasutra English translation only talks about sex and the male perspective. but it's a philosophical book about relationships and love. only 20% of the book is about sex. it was selectively translated to suit "filthy paganism" narrative of the British.
oBb9W TIL the woman who invented Mother's Day spent the last years of her life trying to abolish it