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TIL there are 500 times more microplastics in our ocean than stars in our galaxy.

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Oo654 TIL in 2010, Nestlé refused to watch a documentary about child slave labor in the cocoa industry and their involvement in it. In response, the film's director set up a large screen next to Nestle’s headquarters in Switzerland playing the film.
O9B4 TIL “Go eat toffee” is a common insult in South Korea, because Korean toffees are shaped like dicks
N7kl8 TIL After the Watergate scandal broke, Richard Nixon still won the 1972 election by winning 49 out of 50 states for a whopping 520 electoral votes.
WRw4 TIL After Pope Gregory IX associated cats with devil worship, cats throughout Europe were exterminated in droves. This sudden lack of cats led to an increase in rat infestation which in turn increased the spread of disease, the most devastating being the Bubonic Plague.
kJrM1 TIL about Bleeding Kansas, a violent 5 year prelude to the American civil war that took place in Kansas territory between pro-slavers and abolitionists