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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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Y7E9P TIL The US Marine Corps and the Dept of the Navy allowed thousands of people to drink contaminated water at Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base Camp over the course of decades.
8AxK TIL there is a drug that can cure opiate addiction in 24 hours with no withdraw symptoms.
xRaB TIL that a fan theory, that predicted Don Draper would be revealed as the famous Air Pirate D.B. Cooper, gained enough traction that Mad Men series creator Matthew Weiner went on CNN to debunk it
jnPQ TIL “African Dodger” was an American carnival game where people paid to throw a baseball at an African American’s head
Oo141 TIL that Joseph Guillotin, who proposed the idea of the guillotine as a less painful method of execution, was born prematurely because his mother was in distress after hearing the screams of a man being tortured to death.