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TIL Asphalt pavement is not only America’s most recycled and reused material, it now is being recycled and reused at a rate over 99 percent.

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Z8DaY TIL that Aki Ross, the computer-generated protagonist of the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, was intended to serve as the world's first CGI actress, using the same model and voice actress for different movies and characters. The movie lost $52 million, ending this plan.
jNQNp TIL the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan shifted the main island of the country by 8 feet and the planet's axis by 4 inches
vYjD TIL that the number 17 (XVII) was deemed ‘unlucky’ by the Romans and Italians because the Roman numeral was an anagram for VIXI, meaning 'I lived,’ a reference to one’s own death. Thus, Italian buildings do not have a 17th floor and so forth.
9xmQ TIL that in the city of Mackinac Island, Michigan, cars have been banned since 1898
yQlPe TIL "Libations," the practice of pouring out alcohol in memory of those who have "passed on" was common in Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. "Pouring one out for the homies" is a custom over 3,000 years old and is mentioned in the Bible, the The Iliad, and The Odyssey.