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TIL that only 10% of every Starbucks Cup is recycable. This are about 2.3 billion cups per year!

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Yp9oP TIL in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennessee, vehicle owners can request a state-issued license plate featuring the Sons of Confederate Veterans logo, which incorporates the square Confederate battle flag.
rR69M TIL about mental health: after 83,000 brain scans, Dr. Daniel Amen says the most important lesson learned is that many people have problems with their brain, but a lot of them can be easily fixed if scanned and treated, rather than blindly prescribing intense medication
6p0m TIL that a man got thrown off an American Airlines flight last year after flying into a rage over being wished “Merry Christmas.” The other passengers cheered and applauded when he got tossed.
9AJp TIL that, besides Antarctica, there is a place on earth that is not claimed by any country
9Yx66 TIL a professor at Baylor University started the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project by collecting thousands of songs and photos from the 1940s to the 1980s, and these lost pieces of history are available online, free of charge.