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TIL that Renato Bialetti requested that his ashes be placed in a big moka machine

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59lr TIL that since 2005, Staples has recycled 182 million pounds of plastic–roughly the equivalent of an aircraft carrier or 400 times the Statue of Liberty–via its printer ink and toner cartridge recycling program.
b6X94 TIL about Poverty Point, a Native American site dated to 1,700 B.C. which was built by moving 53,000,000 cubic feet of soil by hand, creating massive mounds which the "city" was built on. It was a society of hunter gathers that created an expansive trade network that reached from Louisiana to Ohio.
QDyk TIL Despite the US owning the most gun per capita, team USA has never won an Olympic medal in the one winter event (biathlon) that involves guns.
xVXP1 Black women are three times more likely to die from complications of childbirth than white women in the U.S.
16xG4 TIL that Missing Parrot With British Accent Returns Home After 4 Years Speaking Spanish