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TIL Pizza boxes cannot be recycled if they have any bits of pizza on them.

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9RMX TIL a greater percentage of Dutch people speak English than Canadians. 90% of Dutch people speak English. Only 85% of Canadians do.
LkXpm TIL a theory describing the tragic story behind Superman's creation wherein one of the creators Jerry Siegel may have created the bulletproof man because of his father's death during an armed robbery.
Ovm4 TIL the Dutch built a nursing home for Alzheimers patients that pretends as a village, complete with shops, restaurants, movie theaters, all staffed by personnel trained to care for dementia patients.
RpEj TIL that the US nuclear arsenal is the property of the civilian Department of Energy, not the military Department of Defense
geQA TIL that Wilhelm Furtwängler, a leading German conductor, called Hitler a “hissing street pedlar” and an “enemy of the human race”. He also refused to give the Nazi salute, wrote public letters denouncing antisemitism, and once got into a shouting match with Hitler over Nazi cultural policy.