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TIL the capacity of an average garbage truck in North America -- 500-1000 homes!

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p8VDN TIL of the 2009 Satellite Collision: the first time two satellites collided at hypervelocity
kBrE TIL the Army secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the ocean, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets
Zj1a TIL Robin Williams agreed to voice the Genie for SAG scale pay ($75,000) on two conditions: his name nor image be used for marketing and that the character not take more than 25 percent of space on advertising artwork; Disney reneged on both
RdY1 TIL that Kris Kristofferson wrote “Me and Bobby McGee” and that Janis Joplin’s version was actually a cover
jZaM TIL that there is an evil clown that you can hire to stalk and attack your child.