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TIL that Christmas trees can be recycled. Louisiana uses them to build shoreline fences to reduce erosion and form new marshes.

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x6AR0 TIL that to always win at Guess Who? instead of asking narrow questions you should ask broad questions, like "Does your person's name start with the letter A through M?" versus narrow questions like "Does your person have red hair?". Using this method you can guess the correct person in 5-6 tries.
xVrMw TIL That Reactor 4 at Chernobyl received a new so called "cover" that has been in planning and construction for 20years. It is now complete with cleanup on the old underlining structure still being done
mJ8y TIL that Dutch anti-immigrant right wing politician Geert Wilders is himself a mixed race and descendant of a mixed Dutch-Indonesian migrant from his mother. And his blond hair is actually also dyed.
dDJ7K TIL 37 yrs ago, the US shot down an Iranian passenger plane killing all 290 people on the plane.
b6Wp9 TIL shipbuilders often place "Sacrificial Anodes", which is metal nodules made of easily-reacting metal like zinc, to "force" the Anodising corrosion to happen on these "throwaway" spots rather than on the main steel hull of the ship