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TIL Pizza boxes, or any cardboard or paper with grease soaked into it, aren’t usually recycled.

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ROj1 TIL citizens in the United States can give up their citizenship at any time, becoming stateless.
woLxo TIL about the Horse, Sergeant Reckless. A Horse who served with the marines in Korea. She was able to haul ammunition by herself without a handler, would seek a bunker or lay down when under fire and received two purple hearts as well as other medals for her service in the Korean war.
oBYe8 TIL Radiohead dedicated their album 'The Bends' to the late comedian Bill Hicks
JYlkk TIL of Paddy the Wanderer, a beloved stray Airedale Terrier from Wellington, New Zealand who befriended workers, cabbies, and seamen; sometimes stowing away on visiting ships (said to have crossed Tasman Sea many times).
ay6Z TIL influential sci-fi writer William Gibson once wrote a 4500-word article on Singapore titled ‘Disneyland with the Death Penalty’ for Wired. The magazine was banned in the city-state after the issue’s release.