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TIL: Brazil has the highest rate of aluminium can recycling in the world with 98.3%

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ZbRB TIL 10 days into the shoot for The Wizard of Oz, Buddy Ebsen suffered a reaction to the aluminum powder makeup he wore; the powder he breathed in daily as it was applied had coated his lungs. Ebsen was hospitalized in critical condition. He was later put in an iron lung.
neEL9 TIL That Snoop Dogg hired a guy whose only job is to roll his joints.
p8GoQ TIL that the mayor of a South Carolina town barred the researchers who exposed the Flint, Michigan water problem from testing his own city's wells, even after they found high levels of lead in thousands of residential home tests.
RQA9 TIL that Walmart takes in $236,804 annually per employee in the US. The average annual income of a full time Walmart employee is $15,576.
GYeBE Today I learned about JIS-spec screws, which look an awful lot like Phillips-head screws, but the tools are not always interchangeable and can cause mechanics tremendous frustration.