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TIL: The average person swallows plastic equivalent to a credit card every week, due to micro plastics in our everyday lives

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jNZLE TIL that while they were originally thought to be white with black stripes because of their white belly, zebras are actually black (where the pigment is activated) with white stripes (where the pigment is inhibited) as shows embryological evidence
epyXL TIL Formula one race car driver Alex Zanardi cheated near death three times. In 2001 he had both legs amputated in a racing crash,in 2020 he suffered head trauma while handcycling and was in a medically induced coma, and in 2022 his home caught fire and he was hospitalized for smoke inhalation.
nex57 TIL a study by Durex found that the Japanese had the least sex in the world & only 24% of Japanese were satisfied with their sex life
BgORL TIL that in 1943, Canadian legislation created a temporary extraterritorial space for the birth of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands. This ensured that Margriet was not born on foreign soil, which would have made her ineligible for the royal succession under the Constitution of the Netherlands.
KYonJ TIL the US Department of Agriculture published guidance on how to dispose of horses with explosives [PDF]