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TIL Most “recycled” plastic ends up in landfills.

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l4P7 TIL that ‘The Guardian’ keeps a database of the number of US citizens killed by the police in the United States
6Evp7 TIL that mutton was a common dish in America until WW2, and its decline came after GIs, having been fed with canned mutton on the front, returned home and never wanted to see mutton again.
erXn TIL some bacteria might generate, and communicate with radio waves.
VBlvB TIL of "Earthquake diplomacy" between Turkey and Greece which was initiated after successive earthquakes hit both countries in the summer of 1999. Since then both countries help each other in case of an earthquake no matter how their relations are.
gM0ZX TIL that John Parr and George Ellison, respectively the first and last British military casualties of World War I, are coincidentally buried in the St-Symphorien cemetery in Belgium, with their graves facing each other.