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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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nXdW TIL that the largest non-commercial rocket launch in Europe was undertaken by Top Gear while attempting to send a Reliant Robin to space
M5bb TIL that during the My Lai Massacre, an American helicopter pilot intervened and carried wounded children to safety after arguing with American forces. The US government condemned and ostracized the pilot, who ended up suffering from PTSD.
KKMw TIL that there were 32 solar panels on the White House, and that Ronald Reagan had them removed.