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TIL that according to the American Forest and Paper Association, pizza boxes ARE recyclable (study in comments)

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Oo07X TIL that historians believe that the myth of the Cyclops came from the Greek discovering fossils of elephant ancestors.
KO1M9 TIL every baby born in Korea is one year old and all Koreans turn a year older on January First. This helps maintain the age hierarchy vital in Korea.
xVWG5 TIL carpenter bees come in an adorable blue species.
1aWpd TIL in 1938 when Neville Chamberlain returned from visiting Hitler promising "peace for our time", the crowd of 5,000 supporters at the airport were eclipsed by 15,000 protestors in the streets in London, but wasn't reported on due to Chamberlain's manipulation of the BBC.
wLm8 TIL: Printer ink costs over seven times more than Dom Perignon vintage champagne per millilitre.