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TIL In 1997, five million Lego pieces fell off a cargo ship along the coasts of England. Ironically, many of these pieces were themed around sea creatures, this is the worst toy-related environmental disaster of all time, and beachcombers still uncover the shipwrecked plastic treasures today.

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D1yvr TIL about the Founding Father's love for ice cream. Thomas Jefferson crafted an 18-step recipe for vanilla ice cream that is housed in the Library of Congress. George Washington was said to have spent $200 on ice cream in the summer of 1790.
e0j1E TIL that Mr. Toad has a headstone in the pet cemetery at the Haunted Mansion in Magic Kingdom at Disney World as a tribute to the now extinct Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
kWoE TIL that tea parties weren’t invented until the 1830s; which means the 1773 Boston Tea Party wasn’t known by that name until more than 60 years after the event. At the time it was referred to as “the destruction of the tea”.
5jnr TIL Richard Nixon possessed 3,700 hours of taped conversations while he was in the White House. Very few people have listened to more than a few hours of them. The tapes “go a long way toward showing Nixon’s underappreciated geopolitical genius and how he became the victim of his own emotionalism.”
VBpPm TIL Global Life Expectancy went down in 2020 & 2021. Also, Despite the Global GDP being at an all-time high, people are less equal, wealth is not being shared, and people are anxious and uncertain about the future.