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TIL that as of 2015, only 9% of all plastic ever made had been recycled, 12% was incinerated and 79% was in landfills or the environment,

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grEA7 TIL that L. Ron Hubbard, creator of Scientology, made anti-Psychiatry one of its main tenets after a psychiatrist told Hubbard's wife that he had Paranoid Schizophrenia
7dBx TIL that fans reacted badly to Arthur Conan Doyle killing off Sherlock Holmes. It was front-page news around the world; 20,000 people cancelled subscriptions to ‘Strand’ magazine and sent hate mail; thousands wrote to the author begging him to undo the death. Doyle resurrected Holmes a decade later.
lo57r TIL the end of a Ponzi scheme led to a Civil War in Albania where more than half the population had participated in various schemes.
G0GE TIL that despite constituting less than 0.1% of the prison population, the Aryan Brotherhood is responsible for 18-25% of prison murders.
ONa4 TIL Hugh Jackman gets bodybilding advice from The Rock, and The Rock refers to Jackman as ‘Wolverine.’