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

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nxwY TIL While bored on set, Dame Judy Dench embroiders obscene phrases onto cushions, such as “You Are A Cunt” and gives them to her co-stars as presents.
ng8G TIL Gambling for cash is illegal in Japan. Instead, balls won from games are exchanged for prizes or tokens. These items are then exchanged for cash at a place nominally separate from the parlor.
ZZXQ TIL Daniel Radcliffe deliberately wore the same outfit for 6 months to piss off the paprazzi. Making it look like “the same old shot”
J11ZB TIL that Boxer Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Clay) released an album of spoken word music titled “I am the greatest” in 1963. The album also features a cover of Stand by Me, sung by Ali. It was nominated for a Grammy award and has been identified as an early example of rap music.
165nX TIL that, when Cleopatra VII. Philpator (the one we know from Shakespeare/Asterix) was born in 69 b.c., her greek family, the Ptolemies, had already been ruling Egypt for 236 years since 305 b.c., and been there since the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great in 332 b.c. or his death in 323 b.c.