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TIL Many hotels including Hilton and Marriott collect guests’ used soaps, scrape the hair and stuff off, then melt them down to make new soaps.

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by8a TIL the “extra” fish in Spongebob all have names and the fish who yells “My leg!” is named Fred.
DQ46r TIL about "glacier mice": mysterious balls of moss found in icy environments that move in herds at about 1inch a day. How they form and how/why they move is unknown.
VMRBG TIL that Robert E. Lee greduated second in his class from the United States Military Academy. More impressive however, is that he recived no demerts his entire time there. To this day, that has never been matched.
9YRlM TIL Omni Magazine was an influential publication that ran from 1978 to 1995. Created by Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione and wife Kathy Keeton, it featured interviews with scientists such as Freeman Dyson, art from H.R. Giger and Chris Foss, and original fiction from authors such as Isaac Asimov
ZlyY TIL that up to 150 of the worlds elite from politicians to academia, industry and the media have been meeting annually, behind closed doors, at Bilderberg conferences since 1954.