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TIL The USA throws away the equivalent of 125 school busses full of plastic drinking straws on a daily basis.

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6myX TIL Not all breeds of dogs can swim. Among those that can’t swim at all or swim only with great difficulty are basset hounds, bulldogs, dachshunds, pugs, corgis, Scottish and Boston terriers and greyhounds.
D5LV TIL there must always be a cyclone somewhere on Earth
R5LVQ TIL there is no federal statute that says a private business, person, or organization must accept currency or coins
rxxd TIL that blue whales gain about 200 pounds per day for the first year of their lives
eJAb TIL That Marie Curie is the only person to ever win two Nobel Prizes in differing science fields; chemistry and physics.