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TIL compostable plastic is only compostable in an industrial or commercial facility

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gb14 TIL that in China it’s illegal for two ghosts to marry each other.
v1dYK TIL 'Plankton' is not a single species, but is instead an umbrella term used to refer to any lifeform that drifts with the ocean currents, including microorganisms like bacteria and algae, as well as larger creatures like jellyfish.
1avg7 TIL that MTV officially started broadcasting 38 years ago on August 1, 1981 and the first music video played was "Video Killed the Radio Star"
g4gL TIL that in 2014 a potential new state of matter called “disordered hyperuniformity” was discovered in the eye of a chicken.
6B4W TIL Greenland has to import Christmas trees because they cannot grow that far north