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TIL those super common dissolvable packing peanuts you can melt with water can be composted

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4kODb TIL that from 2009 to 2019, out of 212 cruise ship overboard incidents only 48 people were rescued.
9MOm TIL that when Jefferson sent Lewis & Clark on their 1804 expedition across the American West, they all still very much believed in the potential of encountering living mammoths. This was because, at the time, people still refused that God would ever let anything go extinct.
69VLJ TIL there's a field of thousands of prehistoric stone jars in Laos
5Yrjn TIL that Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th POTUS, had a secret surgery through the roof of his mouth to avoid scarring so the public wouldn't panic and worsen the financial situation of the U.S.
eG6n TIL Black US servicemen on duty in Australia during WWII were treated so poorly by their white superiors that they rioted and are said to have used 30,000 rounds of machine gun ammo firing at the tents of their white superiors.