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TIL China is the biggest Ocean Polluter in the world!

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GAZy7 TIL In a 1998 study that studied 213 incidents of dogs ingesting marijuana (between 0.5 and 90 grams), all the dogs made a full recovery.
wLwyW TIL A man tried to bungee jump off a 70-foot bridge in Virginia. He made his own 70-foot bungee cord by tying several bungee chords together. Unfortunately, he didn’t realize that bungee chords stretch, and died.
b6Mvj TIL that for decades, radiotherapy patients had reported phenomena such as "flashes of bright or blue light" when receiving radiation for brain cancer. This was confirmed to be Cherenkov light being generated in the fluids of the eye by researchers in 2019.
5m18 TIL that Clint Eastwood “wore the same poncho, without ever having washed it, in all three of his ‘Man with No Name’ Westerns”
rR0KW TIL that the rate at which we process visual information slows down over time, and this is what makes time ‘speed up’ as we grow older.