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TIL only 10% of plastic is actually recycled

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VM8a8 TIL that Tuvalu (a Pacific island nation) leased the rights to the .tv domain in 1999 for $50 million; the deal trebled their entire national income, and one of the first things they bought was a membership in the United Nations
0Ej TIL after a student was suspended for wearing their t-shirt, Korn donated hundreds of shirts to be given out and police officers helped to do so
PYBbn TIL while the winners of the 1971 Cannonball Run - a street race across the USA - were driving a Ferrari Daytona, the 2nd place finishers had a Chevy van fitted with a 248-gallon auxiliary tank to minimize the refuel count. The van took only 53 minutes longer than the Ferrari to finish the race in.
6Q5m TIL we’re now exposed to as much data in a single day as someone in the 15th century would be in their entire lifetime.
Kl19 TIL That the full size pears inside some bottles of liquor are actually grown in there by hanging the bottles from the tree