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TIL 85% of our old clothes end up in a landfill, equating to about 25 billion tons of textile waste annually in North America that contaminate the water and soil because most of the clothing fibers cannot biodegrade.

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9w0ZD TIL in 1874, the Freedman’s Savings Bank, created to help African Americans build wealth, collapsed due to mismanagement and fraud. Over 60,000 Black Americans lost about $3M in savings, devastating trust in financial institutions and crippling Black economic progress many decades.
XExX6 TIL astronomer Fritz Zwicky - the first to conceive of dark matter, supernovas, and neutron stars - wrote in 1961 that the way to reach other stars is by accelerating the sun via nuclear fusion, and having it drag all the planets along. He warned that if the US didn't pursue this, the Russians would
XkMj TIL That porn star Sunny Lane’s career is managed by her parents, of which she lives with in an apartment.
RBg1 TIL When comparing job creation of different presidents, President Carter was actually one of the most successful. Only one other president created more jobs in one term, and Carter was unmatched in job creation when comparing the first three years of his administration to the others. Since 1952.
pYWk8 TIL After playing chess for 14 hours a day for months in preperation for the chess world championship, Bobby Fischer was asked what he was going to do now that he had won, his response was: "My goal now is to play more chess, I haven't played enough chess"