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TIL half of the plastic on Earth has been created since 2002, and we each consume a credit card's worth of plastic every week

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dDaaB TIL only one NFL player has ever obtained a perfect Wonderlic("IQ") score, Bengals Punter Pat McInally. When asked to Retake the exam 32 years later, he missed one question. "Not a bad score after six concussions." Pat said.
PYeXn TIL Nietzsche criticised antisemitism and German nationalism, believing in his final years he was "a pure-blooded Polish nobleman, without a single drop of bad blood, certainly not German". He claimed he and Germany were great thanks to "Polish blood in their veins" and wanted "all antisemites shot"
lOZA TIL that there are sea nomads, whole tribes of people who spend almost all of their lives at sea.
E9vp TIL Donkey Kong was Mario’s pet who he had abused and later kidnapped his girlfriend as revenge for the mistreatment
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