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TIL that in Finland, nine out of ten plastic soft drink bottles are returned for re-use. Almost one hundred percent of all glass bottles are recycled – more than anywhere else in the world.

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oBgG7 TIL having mercury fillings removed isn't recommended unless medically necessary. When they drill out the old filling to replace them, it creates mercury vapors you can unintentionally inhale. The FDA recommends keeping the fillings unless you believe you suffer from a mercury sensitivity.
enx5 TIL Suicide rates for war veterans are at a rate of nearly one per day this year.
1JrX TIL that in Japan there is a railway company that employs a cat as a “Super Station Master”. She is the only female employee in a managerial position
OoDme TIL the farthest a person has ever fallen and survived is at least 33,330 feet. Serbian flight attendant Vesna Vulovic was blown out of a plane when a bomb went off in its baggage compartment in 1972. She had no memory of the event and wasn't afraid to fly afterward.
NXwwP TIL that twelve years after publishing a book reviewing the history of political corruption in West Virginia, former West Virginia Supreme Court justice Allen Loughry was convicted in federal court of eleven counts related to corruption and sentenced to two years in prison.