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TIL that cigarettes are the most littered items in the world.

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0w471 TIL "Blah Blah Blah" saying came from Ancient Greece. The term was "bar bar bar". Taken from the same root as barbarian, it implied the words beings spoken were "meaningless noises",
gwnX TIL Supreme Court found random drug checkpoints unconstitutional in 2000. Since then, police have gotten into the habit of putting signs up warning drivers of upcoming drug checkpoints, and then detaining and searching drivers who make illegal u-turns.
neDeW TIL: Oklahoma has the largest number of lakes made by dams in the U.S. at over 200 lakes. All of Oklahoma’s lakes are man made by making dams. There are no natural lakes in Oklahoma.
dOv8 TIL Dick Van Dyke’s hobby is doing CGI animation, and he even made special effects for an episode of Diagnosis Murder in 1997.
R7lpQ TIL that 99% of the wasabi consumed in the world is not actually wasabi, it’s horseradish + green food colouring. Real wasabia japonica is one of the most expensive crops to grow and is a temperamental semiaquatic herb native to the mountain streams of central Japan.