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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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8eMlP TIL that Makoto Shinkai's Your Name is the first anime not directed by Hayao Miyazaki to earn more than ￥10 billion at the Japanese box office
OoEBe TIL that Jason Hook, lead guitarist for metal band Five Finger Death Punch, got his big break as the guitarist for Hilary Duff’s live touring band in 2000.
O8Dg TIL that a ‘we can change any part of this contract, any time we want, without telling you’ can be a 'poison pill’ that invalidates the rest of a contract.
VRyp TIL there are officially over 55 different musical sub-genres of Metal (black metal, death metal, speed metal, etc…)
jNZRQ TIL that after the Spanish Civil war, many Republicans fled to exile in France. During WW2 more than 60,000 Spanish Republicans, experienced in guerrilla warfare, joined the French Resistance and Free French Forces. The first allied division to enter Paris was almost entirely Spanish.