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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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b6OE0 TIL American paratroopers with the 173rd Airborne Brigade mistakenly raided a working olive oil factory in Bulgaria as part of a large-scale joint exercise with NATO forces.
GADRJ TIL In 1995, 23 states had passed congressional term limits, limiting the amount of time their congressman can serve in office.
awEGM TIL the character of Wilson in Home Improvement (1991) was based on Time Allen's childhood memories of being too short to look over his fence to see his neighbors.
b6y1j TIL Despite his short life, 35 years, Mozart was able to influence the classical music scene with more than 800 works.representing every western classical genre of his time.
x68G5 TIL some old British medicinal plant names have the suffix ‘wort’ with the first part of the name indicating the type of problem, giving us names like Liverwort, Spleenwort, Throatwort, Pilewort and Bollockwort