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TIL that Goodwill sends the clothing they can't sell to textile recyclers, which turns them into sound-proof insulation for cars.

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4XJQX TIL Mark Hoppus came up with the distinctive riff for the song 'Dammit' by playing around with an acoustic guitar that was missing two strings.
5V7rR TIL that on his deathbed, Aldous Huxley asked his wife to inject him with 100 micrograms of LSD
ADDn4 TIL that in 2003, during a case involving stolen lunar samples,a federal court set the value of the moon rocks at $50,800 per gram based on how much it cost the U.S. government to retrieve the samples between 1969 and 1972.
LQ0r0 TIL about “Old Sparky”. Tennessee’s electric chair is over 100 years old and is reportedly made from the wood of the former gallows
5KQR TIL in 1958, Alabama tried to ban a children’s book about a white bunny marrying a black bunny, claiming it promoted mixed-race marriage. The author was confused, since he’d made the bunnies black and white to look picturesque in the illustrations.