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

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8eKbG TIL that Tim Burton did not actually direct The Nightmare Before Christmas, but instead Henry Selick did, because Burton was already directing Batman Returns.
jNMn TIL: While filming the LOTR trilogy, Viggo Mortensen got so into character that during a conversation, Peter Jackson referred to him as “Aragorn” for over half an hour without him realizing it.
gMbaA TIL that the @ symbol has been in use since the 1500s as an accounting abbreviation for "at the rate of". As in “12 widgets @ $1.” (The total would be $12, $1 each).
Z8kav TIL that the Nixon administration gave moon rock samples to 135 countries, and 50 states as goodwill gifts during the Apollo missions.
XbpQ TIL of Otto Skorzeny, a Lt. Colonel in Hitler’s SS who was once called “the most dangerous man in Europe” by Allied intelligence. Years after the war, Skorzeny became an agent for the Israeli Mossad and assassinated an ex-Nazi rocket scientist.