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TIL There Was a Mysterious 60,000 Ton Stone Structure Discovered Beneath the Sea Near Isreal

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e0GBL TIL Chadwick Boseman Took A Pay Cut To Get '21 Bridges' Costar Sienna Miller Paid Her Worth.
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mnwR TIL 90% of clothes donated to U.S. charities are sold to textile recyclers. 75% of THAT are recycled". 25% are sold on the street markets in Africa at about 500% mark-up. This partly crushes the African textile industries because they can’t make new clothes as cheap as cheap old American clothes.
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