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TIL that the EU forces soda makers to introduce tethered caps to make sure they are being recycled.

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ND1J TIL that the pangolin is the only mammal with scales and it’s also the most illegally traded wild mammal on the planet, and is in danger of being eaten to extinction.
4X00a TIL even though a Rubiks cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 (43 quintillions) different combinations, it can always be solved in 20 moves or less.
1dV TIL that Louis Armstrong suffered from severe calluses on his lips due to his excessive trumpet-playing. So, he cut them off with a razor blade.
ame9 TIL Catapults were at times used to fling infected corpses towards defending garrisons back in the middle ages. Causing diseases and plagues, this was the Biological warfare of the time.
l7E87 TIL of the Gruen effect, a psychological phenomenon where a store's design overwhelms a person so they are more easily manipulated to buy things. It is named after architect Victor Gruen, who disapproved of the techniques