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With the amount of plastics in the world's oceans it would take close to several centuries to possibly clean it up

There's only one STOP sign in the entire city of Paris.

In Japan, Ronald McDonald is called Donald McDonald due to a lack of a clear "r" sound in Japanese.

Every year since 1966, the town of Gavle, Sweden, erects a giant straw goat for Christmas, and almost every year, vandals burn it.

Each February, 80% of all honey bees in the US are in California to pollinate the almond trees.

Visible light is less than one ten-billionth of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Laura Dern was blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1990's after playing a lesbian character. That was the 90's for you when homophobia was still strong and very pervasive.

When you first meet people it is common to forget their names - a phenomenon called the ‘next-in-line' effect. This is because people are too worried about themselves, and what they'll say next, to focus on remembering the names of people they're introduced to.

^ I definitely have a bad case of the ‘next-in-line' effect.

Donald Trump was the inspiration for the character Biff Tannen in the "Back to the Future" trilogy.

I study the topic of cryptocurrency and their turnover.
The world is developing

I just learned that today is the 28th and the month doesn't end until Friday! Until this morning, I thought the month ended tomorrow.

Today is actually the 29th.

So, I still haven't learned anything accurate.

You're okay, BlazingStar!

You're excellent at what you do.