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TIL 10% of China’s cooking oil comes from the gutter by recycling sewage. This oil is illegal and dangerous but extremely lucrative for the sellers who can make as much as a well-paid white-collar worker.

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epdB4 TIL Gary Sinise, A.K.A. "Lieutenant Dan" from Forrest Gump has visited 174 military bases and 21 military hospitals around the world since 2003
OG9k6 TIL that long-term comedy partners Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders - who both came from RAF families - lived at the same RAF camps as children, and even shared a best friend. Despite this, they didn't meet until they were in University.
0LaM TIL of a pigeon, Cher Ami, that was awarded the Croix de Guerre for its service during WWI. Cher Ami delivered the S.O.S. message of a lost, encircled battalion despite being shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging only by a tendon.
kOjR4 TIL about Beate Sirota, an Austrian-born Jew raised in Japan. She was educated at the German School of Tokyo for six years, but her parents deemed it "too Nazi" and moved her to the American school. She helped write the Japanese constitution in 1946 ensuring equality for women is enshrined in law.
eMrJ TIL that James Earl Jones once used the handle “Darth Vader” while travelling across the country and spoke, in character, to truck drivers on the CB radio. Apparently, the drivers would really freak out so he stopped doing it.