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TIL that 70% of all recyclable plastic in the US was recycled in China until 2017, when they cut off imports of plastic waste from the US and EU. Today, the vast majority of it ends up in landfills.

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9wkX7 TIL Asian and African elephants can successfully hybridise despite being in different genera. The only recorded hybrid, named Motty, died after 2 weeks however.
Bale TIL there are 60 condom factories in existence that supplies all of the world’s condoms.
b9LG0 TIL that William Hootkins, the actor who played the rebel pilot Porkins in Star Wars: A New Hope, was questioned by the FBI after the assassination of JFK, was school classmates with Tommy Lee Jones, and studied astrophysics and oriental studies at Princeton University.
e0Gek TIL apophenia is the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas). It is not restricted to just seeing shapes at unexpected places. It also includes perceiving patterns in meaningl
XY4R TIL New York City rioted for over a week in 1922 over when it was socially acceptable to wear a straw hat, similar incidents led to a man being killed in 1924