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TIL That there is a company that claims to have the ability to convert the worlds waste plastic into oil

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gMWdD TIL that the band playing most of the songs on Michael Jackson's Thriller album was Toto.
OorNL TIL that the snow featured in the film The Wizard of Oz was actually asbestos.
9wOXp TIL Richard Feynman taught a two-year introductory physics course at Caltech from 1961 to 1963 and his original students had no textbook—their only written materials were created "on the fly". These notes were later published and used as the introductory physics textbook for nearly two decades
7VAp TIL the 80’s had awesome realistic water guns
v1Qx4 TIL Mars Polar Lander(1999) failed because of a bug in the software caused by the fact that the program in question expected the programmer to use the International System of Units (meters, kilograms, ...) in the calculations. However, the programmer had used the American System for calculations.