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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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78Wob TIL of "Sukiyaki" by Kyu Sakamoto which topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963, one of the few non-English songs to have done so, and the first in a non-European language. It was the only single by an Asian artist to top the Hot 100 until the 2020 release of "Dynamite" by BTS
9YN4p TIL Google once hired a camel to do street-view photography.
YVo7 TIL The British Navy uses Britney Spears’ songs to scare off Somali pirates. Her songs were chosen as the pirates hate Western music.
R5pXj TIL In three consecutive days of June 2021, Lytton broke the all-time record for Canada's highest temperature, ending at 49.6 °C (121.3 °F) on June 29. This is the highest temperature ever recorded north of 45°N and higher than the all-time records for Europe and South America.
wL8LP TIL of cryptomnesia - when you forget something and then remember it as if it's an original thought. This can cause unintentional plagiarism or convince you that you've got a brilliant new idea, only to be disappointed when it's already been done.