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

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M7kVm TIL that a Swedish woman found her missing wedding ring, lost in 1995, wrapped around a carrot which she picked from her garden in 2012.
Z875G TIL that between 1974 and 1984 a pro-paedophile activist group called the Paedophile Information Exchange campaigned openly in the UK to abolish the age of consent and even spoke on national television about their views on sexual contact with underage children
mxN8R TIL Every year in the US, doctors' bad handwriting results in 7000 deaths, plus more than 1.5 million injuries.
BmLk TIL: Jacques Cousteau described the oceanic whitetip as “the most dangerous of all sharks.” The oceanic whitetip is suspected to be responsible for many fatal shark bites on humans, as a result of predation on survivors of shipwrecks or downed aircraft.
x6BVB TIL that Turkish law in the middle ages allowed women to divorce their husbands if he failed to provide her with enough coffee.