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TIL That the 3 lines button is offically called the Hamburger button

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7rJQP TIL approximately 140 million cellphones are discarded every year, which would equate to 2,100 metric tons of copper and 3.9 metric tons of gold, among other metals, plastics and glasses
dDDQQ TIL the USA is not a young country anymore. Independence in 1776 makes it older than about two-thirds of the 195 sovereign states recognised by the UN.
VM8y4 TIL that in 19th century England, if your corpse wasn’t claimed in a hospital or if you died in a place where you couldn’t be identified, you might have been sold to a school or hospital so doctors could practice anatomy. Some priests even sold bodies to gravediggers who sold them to hospitals.
jNn9N TIL that Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort were related: Tom Riddle's mother--Merope Gaunt--was a direct descendant of Salazar Slytherin. Cadmus Peverell was her paternal ancestor. Harry Potter's paternal ancestor was Ignotus Peverell, which makes Voldermort and Harry distantly related.