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TIL It takes 95% less energy to recycle aluminum than it does to make it from raw materials.

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grMR4 TIL that Frans de Waal won an Ig Noble Prize for discovering that chimpanzees can identify other chimpanzees individually by seeing photographs of their anogenital regions
jE1n TIL Traces of cannabis have been found on Shakespeare’s pipe
WkJOd TIL about 40% of all Vietnamese people have the surname Nguyễn. It is also the 7th most popular surname in Australia, and 2nd in Melbourne in particular.
oWK7 TIL that over 300,000 people in South Africa got needlessly infected with HIV after state officials supported charlatan vitamin treatment instead of “western medical conspiracy”.
eL66 TIL McDonald’s tried to sue a man legally named Ronald McDonald for running his family restaurant by the same name in 1956. The real Ronald won.