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TIL "Nearly 75 percent of all aluminum ever produced is still in use today" due to recycling

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yJdX TIL that a 15 year old boy named Temar Boggs chased a car on his bike for 15 minutes to save a 5 year old girl who was kidnapped from her front yard.
kO5xW TIL Einstein's brain was removed after his death for study. His eyes were also removed. In 1978, after 20 years, it was rediscovered, stored in two mason jars of alcohol in a cider box.
pY6jp TIL that Ozzy Osbourne is a genetic mutant. The musician has several gene variants that "we've never seen before," said geneticist Nathaniel Pearson, who sequenced the rocker's genome, including variants that could impact how Osbourne's body absorbs methamphetamines and other recreational drugs.
WkAEL TIL that Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman to serve as a justice on the United States Supreme Court in September 21, 1981 with a vote of 99-0. She retired on January 31, 2006.
Br5MK TIL that the story about Saint Patrick driving snakes out of Ireland is really an allegory about him driving the druids, essentially the Celtic philosophers and religious leaders, out of Ireland.