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TIL - Dark Side of Recycling ♻️ - Unsafe Contaminants ⚠️ can enter any stage of the cycle and build up in recycled products...

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JYeP8 TIL that in 1897 the mayor of Seattle quit office to start a boat business and transport gold miners from San Fransisco to Canada
b6oRN TIL that there were four Bronze Age wizards who wore huge conical Golden Hats.
X0EGD TIL about censorship in Turkish media. Alcohol and Tobacco products are blurred out and sometimes covered with a flower. Any forms of kissing or love making is banned amongst other things like mentioning brands.
VB0v4 TIL there is a tiny strip of land within Yellowstone Park called the “Zone of Death”. A constitutional quirk would allow a murder or other crime to take place, but not have enough resident to form a jury. Theoretically allowing a “get away with murder free zone”.
KOYja TIL Baltimore Oriole groundskeeper, Pat Santerone had a competition with Manager Earl Weaver to see who could grow bigger tomatoes. They grew the tomatoes in a plot near the left field foul line.