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TIL Sweden is so good at recycling that it has to import garbage from Norway to fuel its energy programs

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yQjKa TIL lawmakers in South Carolina wanted to raise a monument to honor black Confederate troops from South Carolina without knowing that there weren't any black Confederate soldiers in South Carolina.
gD64 TIL of General Butt Naked who led his troops naked into war, plucked innocent children’s hearts out to eat, chopped the heads of hundreds of people to use as soccer balls and ritually sacrificed teenagers. After the war,he claimed to have found religion and repented. He is now a preacher in Liberia.
KdwQ TIL that in 1830, a black man named Ira Aldridge portrayed the title character in Othello and stunned critics not because his acting was excellent, but because a black man could remember “the most difficult passages” correctly
vJ9D TIL the water resistance depth shown on a watch does not mean the watch can actually be taken to that depth. A watch classified for 30 meters should not even be taken into the shower.
7rpaL TIL In 1985 a drug smuggler jettisoned 40 kilograms (76 pounds) of cocaine from his airplane over Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest. A black bear (later dubbed 'Pablo EskoBear') found and ate ALL of the cocaine and died of an inconceivably massive overdose.