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TIL Sweden recycles more than 99% of all household waste.

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8emb4 TIL that in an attempt to unify the two Boer republics, one person became president of both the Transvaal and the Orange Free State in 1860. This would cause a two year civil war in the Transvaal.
mxpaE TIL Venezuela is the least food secure country in the world
PyRn TIL that suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US
6EAB8 TIL that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spoke a creole language associated with the descendants of slaves called Gullah as his first-language and that his relative silence on the Court is due in part to self-consciousness from being teased about the way he spoke as a child in rural Georgia.
rkxd TIL Heinz was caught underfilling its ketchup bottles and was ordered to overfill its ketchup bottles for the next year.