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TIL Takeout coffee cups are not recyclable and billions are wasted every year

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65oX TIL that Leonardo DiCaprio spent part of his childhood in Germany with his grandparents and speaks German fluently.
OG7Vg TIL that athletes and couch potatoes burn the same number of calories
ep096 TIL that the founder of the Paneuropean Union, the oldest European unification movement, was the Austrian-Japanese politician, philosopher, and count Richard Nikolaus Eijiro. His wartime politics and adventures served as the real life basis for fictional Resistance hero Victor Laszlo.
Nmmb TIL that residents in Mosinee, Wisconsin held a mock Communist invasion which had concentration camps, a purged library, and inflated prices. The mayor, seemingly unaware of the plan, died due to the excitement.
0YMN TIL Hawaii’s Big Island is home to 11 of the world’s 13 climate zones.