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TIL Most “recycled” plastic ends up in landfills.

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Brwpe TIL about Cassandra, a Greek mythological figure who was given the gift of foresight, but was cursed so that no one would ever believe her predictions.
GXB4 TIL Macaulay Culkin got paid $100,000 for Home Alone 1 in 1990. In 1992 for Home Alone 2, he was paid $4.5 Million and in 1994 for Ri¢hie Ri¢h… $8Mil.
ZpZbo TIL the winner of the 1994 Academy Award for Set Direction for the movie Schindler's List was named Ewa Braun.
9wWB6 TIL that the French statesman Tallyrand lived for two years in the United States during the French Revolution, meeting Benedict Arnold by chance and living in the house of Aaron Burr. When Burr moved to France in self-imposed exile ten years later, Tallyrand refused to return the favour.
Br1Vb TIL in 2016 an astronomer convinced Alaska Airlines to shift a flight time 25 minutes so it would pass through the path of totality for a solar eclipse. They even washed all the windows on the right side of the plane.