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TIL that you shouldn’t recycle pizza boxes. The soaked-in grease has likely rendered the cardboard un-recycleable, and you’re doing more harm than good by putting them in the recycle bin.

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jAdv TIL that companies in America will outsource call center duties to prisons. The prisoners make $0.92 per hour to handle calls.
8eRkL TIL that there's something called the "preparedness paradox." Preparation for a danger (an epidemic, natural disaster, etc.) can keep people from being harmed by that danger. Since people didn't see negative consequences from the danger, they wrongly conclude that the danger wasn't bad to start with
kYgg TIL the reason competing retail stores like CVS/Walgreens open right beside each other: if the consumer does not have a preference for either chain, then both stores stand an increased chance of making a sale compared to them being apart.
neOYb TIL Coca-Cola never patented their "secret formula" because they would have to reveal it to the public if they did.
x9Vb TIL that Pinball was removed from Windows because it had a rounding error in the 64 bit version of XP. The code was written by an outside company and it had no comments whatsoever, so they decided to scrap it instead of spending time trying to figure out how the code worked.