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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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oByDR TIL a woman told an auto shop she had to cancel her service appt. as her car was stolen. One of the 3 Tulsa men who own the auto shop called her back the next day to tell her he & his buddies are chasing her stolen car. With TPD dispatch, they got her car back after after a 15 min chase.
mmNR TIL Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, calls sick children in hospitals and talks to them in Character. “…Her mother was in tears, just crying. She said that was the first time her daughter had smiled in six months.”
0wKjL TIL scientists "hacked" the genetic code of brewer's yeast to produce cannabis compounds. They inserted genes from cannabis plants into the yeast's genetic code which allowed it to produce CBD and THC. Their end goal is to allow large scale cannabinoid production without cultivation.
vPOVx TIL that the actor Paul Dooley was also a writer for The Electric Company and created the characters Fargo North-Decoder, and Easy Reader.
9wKL7 TIL that in 1965, the American Nazi Party ran a candidate for governor in Virginia, George Lincoln Rockwell, and he won 1.02% of the vote.