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W7ZBY 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.
N6ob TIL that is theoretically possible to build an entire working computer out of dominoes.
grX99 TIL about the CSS Hunley, a confederate submarine that sank three times, killing her entire crew each time.
pMG8 TIL- In 1935 Congress “declared war on soil erosion and enlisted kudzu as a primary weapon. More than 70 million kudzu seedlings were grown in nurseries by the newly created Soil Conservation Service.”
19N4 TIL Mars, Inc. thought E.T. to be so ugly they feared the character would frighten children and refused to allow M&Ms to be used in the movie. This opened the door to Hershey’s, who took the opportunity to market Reese’s Pieces.