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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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AWwo TIL that a soviet scientist killed his friend with an axe after losing in a game of chess in an Antarctic base. After this incident, Soviet authorities banned chess at their Antarctic bases.
8eVMX TIL about Sarajevo Safari, where wealthy foreign men paid huge monetary fees to hunt civilians in the city with sniper rifles for entertainment purposes during the Bosnian war.
Oo4oY TIL There exists a non profit organization whose sole mission is to assure the six Apollo lunar landing sites are preserved and protected for posterity by having them included on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage List
gGvX TIL A man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing and eating the last indochinease tiger in China
nKeY TIL Facebook’s mobile app discretely eavesdrops on your conversations using your phone’s mic to “serve you a better experience”