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Today I learned that 56 plastic bottles are melted and frozen every 60 seconds in North America. This contributes to six percent of all melted plastic waste per day.

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5ldD TIL that Mattel is one of the largest apparel manufacturers in the world due to all the outfits it makes for Barbie Dolls.
yNQp TIL that a British soldier who fought in both World Wars was shot in the face, head, ankle, leg, hip and ear, survived a plane crash, tunnelled out of a POW camp, and bit off his own fingers when a doctor wouldn’t amputate them. He later said “frankly I had enjoyed the war.”
XE5jD TIL once every 10,000 years, a black hole in a galaxy reveals itself by ripping apart a passing star. These tidal disruption events have given astronomers a new way to map the hidden cosmos.
9YMnD TIL in 1953, a paper boy acquired a hollowed-out nickel containing a ciphered message while collecting for his deliveries. He told the daughter of an NYPD officer and the news got to the FBI, eventually leading to the arrest and conviction of KGB agent Vilyam Fisher four years later.
x6Z7 TIL Just after WWII, multiple short wave radio stations located around the world appeared. These stations transmit letters and numbers, presumably to spies and still operate today.