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Til: The vast majority(79-91% depending on sources) of plastic has never been recycled, and plastic recycling is largely a marketing ploy to ease public perception of plastic producing companies

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1Db8 TIL after the first edit of Star Wars came back as clunky and lackluster, Lucas spliced together a cut of World War II dogfights. The space battle in the final film is a frame for frame re-enactment of this. (1h41s)
yQ9lw TIL the SR-71's sonic boom was used to "remind [heads of state] that they were doing things that were counter to US policy."
7GnZ TIL someone actually tricked Alex Trebek into saying ‘kebert xela’ and he didn’t go back to another dimension.
xVPK7 TIL Scorpion venom is the most expensive liquid on the planet, priced at $39 million a gallon
PYBGw TIL about Jan Davis and Mark Lee, two NASA astronauts who were secretly married shortly before their launch on the space shuttle, becoming the only married couple to travel to space together