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TIL AirPods are "difficult if not impossible" to recycle and not designed to be repairable.

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loWx7 TIL the founder of Toys-R-Us, Charles Lazarus, died a week after Toys-R-Us announced it would be forced to close its retail stores.
1r54 TIL on 9/11 the fighters deployed to the flight that later crashed in PA did not have time to be armed, and both pilots were fully prepared to give their lives by ramming their fighters into the hijacked plane.
xMxD TIL fresh snow absorbs sound, lowering ambient noise over a landscape because the trapped air between snowflakes attenuates vibration. That’s why it gets so quiet when it snows.
M7YNa TIL nacreous clouds, also known as polar stratospheric clouds, are often visible in polar regions during winter. These rare clouds form at high altitudes in the stratosphere, about 15 - 25 km above the Earth, their stunning colors are caused by the diffraction of sunlight through tiny ice crystals.
j5ZE TIL snails can crawl over razorblades and other sharp surfaces without injury