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TIL that it takes 28% to 70% less energy to produce a ton of paper from recycled paper than from trees.

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yQaV TIL the former head of the TSA thinks airport security is a waste of time and effort.
wo5LE TIL that the earliest evidence of humans using psychedelics is a 9,000-year-old cave drawing in Algeria, which depicts a human-like figure with a bee head and mushrooms sprouting out of it.
ADJQB TIL that before become a musician, Kanye Omari West was a visual artist whose early work have been valued at $16k-$23k by Antiques Roadshow
xbA1 TIL N64 GoldenEye 007 was developed by a very small and inexperienced team; it only had ten developers, eight of whom had never previously worked on video games.
D1pBv TIL about Brandon Rhode, a man on death row who attempted suicide by cutting his throat before his execution date. Following the attempt, he was rushed to a local hospital where he was stabilized and saved. He was then executed a few days later.