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TIL the vast majority of plastic polluting our oceans doesn't come from straws or bottles. It comes from abandoned fishing gear.

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x7w7 TIL Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson Installed a English Electric Lightning F1A Jet Fighter in His Front Garden. However, It was Removed on the Orders of the Local Council, to which Clarkson said “[They] wouldn’t believe my claim that it was a leaf blower.”
8k7L TIL in 1999 Matthew McConaughey was arrested at 2:45AM loudly playing bongo drums, Nude and highly intoxicated. He was charged with Drug Possession charges, but was eventually let go with only noise ordinance charges and only $50 fine
oR9o7 TIL that Karl Marx earned 400 pounds from trading on the London Stock Exchange
E1NWV TIL that in 1975 David Bowie and Dennis Hopper broke into a psychiatric ward wearing spacesuits to deliver cocaine to Iggy Pop.
eBpD TIL the film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was shown in Swedish theaters for 11 years straight