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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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4vBo TIL in 1968 Kim Il Sung sent 31 commandos to South Korea to try and assassinate the president. After they infiltrated the border they stumbled on two brothers chopping firewood. They decided to indoctrinate them about the benefits of communism and release them. The brothers notified the police
mxX6o TIL JUUL is the only electronic cigarette product found with nicotine concentrations high enough to be toxic in standard cytotoxicity tests. The nicotine found in JUUL products is about 61 milligrams per milliliter of fluid in pods—equivalent to more than one pack of conventional cigarettes.
dyAd TIL that consumers and shoppers are actually made more anxious by having more choices, and that limiting consumer choice will make consumers happier
R71P9 TIL of Mockbusters, ripoffs of Blockbusters including the 1998 "Secret of Mulan" which ripped off Mulan and A Bugs Life, where all the characters were bugs.
6E4k7 TIL Helly Juell Hansen was a Norwegian captain that first produced clothes in 1877 to protect his crew against the harsh Nordic weather. His revolutionary new product infused linseed oil into cotton fabric. 141 years later, in 2018 the company was sold to Canadian Tire for $985 million.