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TIL Aluminum is so expensive to smelt from ore, yet so cheap to recycle, that up to 75% of all aluminum ever mined is still in use today

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8aB0L TIL July 17, 1972 saw the first two women special agents enter service at the FBI. They were Susan Roley Malone, a former US Marine, and Joanne Pierce, a former nun.
DQ49j TIL Let's Potato Chips is a fictional brand of potato chips that has appeared in shows such as Community, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and many others. Let's was created by prop company, Independent Studio Services, to avoid copyright concerns.
W7JJA TIL a sequel to Gladiator was drafted in which Russel Crowe's Maximus is resurrected as an immortal warrior by the Roman gods to kill Jesus Christ and his disciples. He would have then fought in the Crusades, Vietnam War, and WWII before landing a job at the modern-day Pentagon
Olo1 TIL that “Gravity Falls” from Disney and “Rick and Morty” from Adult Swim had a subtle crossover- When Stan accidentaly throws some objects into a portal in the episode “Society of the Blind Eye”, those objects come out of one of Rick’s portals in “Close Rick-counters of the rick-kind”
ep8DL TIL of Enrico Matei, the man tasked with dismantling Italy's state run oil enterprise post WW2. Within 9 years, he created a behemoth that rivaled the "7 sisters", an oligopoly that dominated the world's oil supply at the time. He died in a plane crash in 1962 under suspicious circumstances