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TIL that cellophane is not a form of plastic and is completely biodegradable

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OovB4 TIL of Jean Van Landeghem, a Belgian man who has been repeatedly pranked with pizza deliveries for nearly a decade, and he does not know who is sending them.
epr4n TIL that in Bollante, Italy, there's a restaurant called "InGalera", Italian for "InPrison", which is run inside a prison, with the inmates working as cooks and waiters
5Yxdp TIL the Grand Canyon Museum had three buckets of radioactive uranium ore on display for 18 years, and only found out when a kid was goofing around with a Geiger counter
QJroa TIL Switzerland allows assisted suicide even by non physicians if carried out for altruistic/unselfish reasons
ZnKo TIL Chinua Achebe’s novel “Things Fall Apart” has been described as “the first novel in English which spoke from the interior of the African character, rather than portraying the African as an exotic, as the white man would see him”