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TIL a box of Fererro Rocher chocolates is 42% plastic packaging that can't be recycled. "Carefully designed to maintain the freshness" according to the CEO

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0w6dy TIL Robin Williams wrote a letter to a Toronto high school principal, asking he reconsider expelling Lisa Jakub--gone due to movie filming. The principal did not honor William's request, but was quick to frame and display letter in his office, excited a celebrity had paid him any attention.
eo7n TIL that slavery was still practised in South Korean salt farms as recently as 2014.
1aXgW TIL crocodiles are homodonts i.e. each of their ~80 teeth is of the same type and they can get replaced upto 50 times over a lifespan of 35-70 years.
OomGY TIL that Russia built a computer that ran on water in 1936
lG0A TIL that Starbucks was a dismal failure in Australia…