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TIL that Sweden’s recycling program is so effective that 99% of household waste is recycled. Even its food waste is composted. Sweden even imports 700,000 tons of waste from other countries.

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o8nR TIL JP Morgan has paid $36 billion for dozens of frauds, over the last 5 years.
aQoJ TIL that John Hughes wrote Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in less than a week and went on to shoot the film on what was essentially his first draft of the script.
0XeA TIL that with the aim of launching guerrilla operations against the Chinese, the CIA funded the Dalai Lama $1.7 million a year in the 1960s
78dwp TIL that despite eyewitnesses and public outrage, no one was ever charged for the 1946 Moore’s Ford lynching — the case stayed sealed for over 70 years.
7rJQP TIL approximately 140 million cellphones are discarded every year, which would equate to 2,100 metric tons of copper and 3.9 metric tons of gold, among other metals, plastics and glasses