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TIL plastic was invented in 1907. Since 1950, humanity has produced 6.3 billion metric tons of plastic waste; 9% of it is recycled, 12% is incinerated, 79% ends up in a landfill or in the environment. Majority of the world's plastic waste from the developed world is exported to Southeast Asia.

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6E7NQ TIL due to high ruble inflation during the fall of the USSR, parody dollar bills dropped by AC/DC during their concert in Moscow were used in monetary transactions and considered more valuable than rubles.
P1M8V TIL North Korea set up a large middle school in Pyongyang for ethnic Chinese students in 1955. When news of the Chinese Cultural Revolution reached students in 1966, they openly chanted Mao songs and teachings, Communist slogans, attacked the principal's office, resulting in closure of the school
xV8XB TIL After a composer released a song that was just 60 seconds of silence, he was sued by the estate of a man who had released a similar track, called 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. His defense was, "I have been able to say in one minute what he could only say in four minutes and 33 seconds"
m1pkR TIL Samsung started off in 1938 as a grocery and noodle trading company before jumping into electronics in the 1960s.
v1Qr7 TIL that after Italian football club Lazio won the Italian Super Cup in Saudi Arabia, they were stopped at the Riyadh airport, and the captain was forced to take the trophy with him through the metal detector