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TIL half-used hotel soap is sterilized, melted down, and reformed and sent to poorer countries with scarce hygiene resources

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ANQOx TIL if there are 23 people in a room with you, there is a 50/50 chance that two people have the same birthday.
oR1YY TIL Sperm Whales consume roughly twice as much seafood as all of humanity combined per year. With Sperm Whales (the largest toothed predators) consuming roughly 300 million tonnes per year and humans consuming about 160 million tonnes. (Further sources in comments)
mx46x TIL that in 1996 a chemistry professor accidentally spilled a drop of organic mercury on her latex gloved hand. She died of mercury poisoning less than a year later.
mxdQp TIL that in 2015, Christopher Ingraham of Washington Post wrote an article about Red Lake County in Minnesota being "the absolute worst place to live in America." The unhappy county residents invited the reporter to come visit. He liked it so much, less than 1 year later he moved his family there.
negJ7 TIL that Bobbi Gibb entered the Boston Marathon in 1966, despite being told that women couldn't compete beyond a mile and a half, and she was congratulated by the state governor at the finishing line. In 1967 she ran again, finishing an hour ahead of Switzer.