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TIL less than 10% of all plastic has ever actually been recycled

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d8Agj TIL that in 2015 a huge 2100 foot (640 meters) wide human skull-faced asteroid, nicknamed the “Halloween Asteroid”, zoomed past Earth on Halloween. It completes one rotation every 2.94 hours, and will be seen again in November this year.
VJn4 TIL: 13 Billion USD is all it would cost to put everyone in the USA in a 4-year public university. A rounding error by federal budget standards.
e08ag Although coral reefs cover just 0.1% of the seafloor, they provide a home for a quarter of all marine life.
grdPX TIL of the Fiat Mio: a futuristic concept car based on the ideas of thousands of people around the world. Even then the car was never produced
wLyY1 TIL: Mistletoe, commonly seen during Christmas with people kissing under it, is a parasitic plant that kills trees and produces poisonous berries.