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TIL Adidas are making shoes from recycled ocean plastic and in 2017 sold 1,000,000+ pairs of these shoes. Each pair of shoes takes 11 plastic bottles to create

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p89EN TIL Baby elephants usually suck their own trunks to calm themselves. That is almost similar to human babies who also tend to suck their own thumbs.
5Yo1B TIL in 1997 the IBM supercomputer “Big Blue” was able to beat Garry Kasparov, the world champion of chess, at his own game in a best two out of three match. This marked the first time in history that artificial intelligence was actually catching up to humans.
78RWL TIL that Pizzly Bears are the offspring of a female Polar Bear and a male Brown Bear. These hyprid Bears are able to breed offspring and to date there have been 8 confirmed hybrids (4 50:50 B:P, 4 75:25 B/P) in the wild. All 4 75:25 came from one 50:50 female and all 4 50:50 came from one female PB.
j6PLR TIL the most successful Arena Football quarterback of all time, with 3x MVP and 3x Arena championships, is Tom Grady.
kQMm TIL a metabolite of the dissociative anaesthetic ketamine (2S,6S-HNK) has an antidepressant effect which works within minutes and a single dose lasts weeks. Standard antidepressants like Prozac take WEEKS