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TIL Chipotle pioneered a program to recycle their used gloves into trash bags. Their goal was to reduce waste to landfills by 50% by 2020. 95% of food industry gloves go to landfills because no commercial solution existed, until now.

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69P7Z TIL in 2005 Tyler Greese, was diagnosed with a rare liver cancer where only 200 known cases in the entire US. insider.com Make a wish foundation granted him a wish of creating his own Yu- Gi-Oh card known as Tvler the Great Warrior
1m7D TIL In 1994 IBM created and sold the Simon Personal Communicator, it was the first cellular phone to include telephone and PDA features in one device.
rRX5W TIL "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is a cover of a 1939 South African song called "Mbube," recorded in Zulu by Soloman Linda & the Evening Birds. The original is now public domain, but "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," with additional lyrics in English ("In the jungle, the mighty jungle...") is under copyright.
neE47 TIL that in 2003, Dutchman Kees Moeliker won the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology after writing a paper on "the first case of homosexual necrophilia [by a mallard]" after watching a duck die after crashing into his window, only for its corpse to be "raped almost continually for 75 mins" by another duck.
KOJ49 TIL: Plato's real name was Aristocles, and that 'Plato' was a nickname (roughly 'the broad') derived either from the width of his shoulders, the results of training for wrestling, or from the breadth of his style, or from the size of his forehead.