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TIL Switzerland has no landfills. 50% of the municipal waste is recycled, 50% is incinerated to produce electricity

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vBWD TIL Italian-Americans Were the Victims in the Worst Lynching in American History
YpgeP TIL: After sleeping on his couch Robert Englund told a young Mark Hamill to audition for the lead character in Star Wars. Englund later went on to play Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street films
p4AG TIL the Innocence Project has freed 311 wrongfully convicted people, including 18 who spent time on death row.
wLMB6 TIL the English language is the only language (of the most spoken languages in the world) that doesn’t have a regulator body/institution.
m1ddR TIL in 1995, a man was convicted by a court in France for the murder of a teenage girl. However, he fleeing to Germany. In 2009, the father of the victim organized a team to abduct the killer from Germany and deliver him to a French courthouse, where he was finally sentenced to 15 years in prison.