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TIL Pollution from 1 container ship = 50 million cars. 15 ships = total global car emissions

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78JNL TIL the loudest sound in recorded history came from the volcanic eruption on the Indonesian island Krakatoa.
QJwvk TIL that the late, great Eddie Van Halen almost never listened to music he wasn't actively involved in. Nor did he revisit his own work , and his car stereo stayed off. He scarcely listened to Pantera either, even though he placed his own axe inside the funeral casket of guitarist Dimebag Darell
wo50E TIL that Charles Dickens was a great lover of cats, so much so that when one of his beloved cats, Bob, passed away, Dickens was so upset that his sister-in-law fashioned one of Bob's paws into a letter opener. Dickens kept this at his side as he wrote and he used it every morning to open his mail.
b97kN TIL that a single exposure to rudeness in the morning can contaminate people's perception of subsequent social interactions throughout the day, causing them to perceive more instances of rudeness.
5VMxP TIL the original Beetlejuice script was less humorous and more dark with the initial fatal car accident depicted graphically. Betelgeuse himself was supposed to be a winged demon who takes the form of a short MiddleEastern man. He also wants to kill the Deetzes and wants sex from Lydia not marriage