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TIL coffee cups and many other items with a "recycling" symbol can't actually be recycled (and what can be recycled varies depending on where you live)

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pYG1G TIL Soviet ballet prodigy Rudolf Nureyev was from a Muslim Tartar family and started dance in Bashkir folk performances. On tour in Paris, he escaped the KGB to socialize at gay bars and with foreigners. In retaliation for defecting to the West, he was banned from seeing his mother for 25 years.
rNnyM TIL Japan railway platforms saw a 84 percent decrease in suicides at stations after they installed blue lights.
d8J9Z TIL about the "Smiley Face Murders" a series of mysterious deaths that have taken place over the last 30 years across the Eastern US in which healthy college-aged males are found dead in rivers with smiley faces spray painted nearby.
neE6Y TIL: Turtles can breathe through their butts. It’s called cloacal respiration and it happens during winter hibernation in near frozen lakes.
vprB TIL in order to advertise their services, prostitutes in ancient Greece wore sandals that left the words “follow me” imprinted in the dirt as they walked.