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TIL that 45% of drywall in the US is made from waste from coal-burning electric plants. And that the gypsum in drywall is 100% recyclable.

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ADKjB TIL all froot loops have the same flavor.
Rd96 TIL as an undergraduate at Harvard, Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, felt his literature professor was giving him unfair grades. To prove it, he plagiarized a work by George Orwell and submitted it as his own. The paper was returned by his professor with a grade of “B-”.
7ABL TIL Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, was once subjected to a strip-search by airport security who considered him a suspicious character. As he was led away, a little boy said, “Ha, ha!” like Nelson on The Simpsons. Groening found the boy’s mockery the most irritating thing about the incident.
0r11 TIL Belgium holds the world record of longest time without a government with 589 days
Brpy TIL that the sudden feeling of falling that occurs occasionally when one dozes off is actually a mild epileptic seizure and has been suggested to be connected with déjà vu.