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TIL that there is a company called TerraCycle that recycles everything that’s considered non-recyclable, including cigarette butts, dirty diapers, and chewing gum!

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BJQW TIL if Lance Armstrong’s 2005 Tour De France title was given to the next fastest finisher who hasn’t been found to dope, they’d have to give it to the 23rd place finisher
PYKyO TIL Hawaiian King Kamehameha IV was shocked when in America, a train conductor mistook him for the servant: "The first time that I have ever received such treatment, not in England or France or anywhere else... In England an African can pay his fare and sit alongside Queen Victoria."
9wpDm TIL that our eyes twist when we tilt our heads
PYXbL TIL Argonauts (also known as paper nautilus) are a branch of cephalopods capable on producing its own shell thought specialised tentacles. The shell is used to lay their eggs and for buoyancy.
0EgM TIL: Martin Luther King Jr. said, “People who have a stake in their society, protect their society, but when when they don’t have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.”