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TIL Over 60 million cigarette butts have been collected on beaches making them the single greatest source of ocean trash.

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KOpla TIL President Kennedy's daughter Caroline was given a puppy by the Soviets in 1961. The puppy's mother, Strelka, had earlier been launched into space during Sputnik. JFK's Thank You letter to the Soviets opened a channel of communication that helped divert the Cuban Missile Crisis 16 months later.
4aVg TIL sexual intercourse produces five times more hormones than that of masturbation.
ADe1o TIL Tobacco companies in India literally target kids by placing adverts at their eye level, not adults.
VBNMG TIL Stephen King never cashed the $5,000 check that Frank Darabont paid him in 1987 for the rights to adapt his novella 'Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption'. Eventually, King had the check framed and returned it to Darabont with a note that read, "In case you ever need bail money. Love, Steve."
16yKX TIL test audiences didn't like the original ending of Fatal Attraction because Glenn Close's character framed Michael Douglas' character for murder & took her own life. They wanted her to get what "she deserved." Director Adrian Lyne reportedly only agreed to film a new ending when paid $1.5 million