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TIL that plastic waste has now formed new types of rocks (plastiglomerates, pyroplastics, and plastistones) in the most remote parts of the planet that will be part of the Anthropocene fossil record as evidence of the influence of humans

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QNLvL TIL that 15 years before the publication of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, his wife Eileen O’Shaughnessy had already written and published a poem about 1984
Oo5lX TIL that for every one bird killed by wind turbines in the U.S. there are 4,000 to 17,000 killed by cats.
gbRL TIL: Pixar spent three years studying the physics of curly hair in order to correctly render Merida’s hair in “Brave”.
54oB TIL 1100 hostages were taken during the Belsan school hostage crisis. After three days of standoff, Russian security forces stormed the building with the use of tanks, incendiary rockets and other heavy weapons. 330 hostages were killed, including 186 children.
lovlB TIL upon arrival to the shores of occupied Southern France, the allies were greeted by a lone Frenchman giving out champagne