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TIL only 10% of plastic is actually recycled
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TIL that there is a standard for sending internet packets using people and flags
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TIL Under the original terms of the U.S. Constitution, the President could not choose his vice president, instead it was the canditate with the second most votes.
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TIL The novel/film "Looking For Mr. Goodbar" was based on a true story. It was based on the murder of school teacher Roseann Quinn in 1973. She was stabbed 18 times by a man she met that night at a bar and brought home. When he was finally caught he hung himself in jail.
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TIL for 18 days in 1520, Henry VIII & Francis I convened a celebration of "unmatched proportions" called The Field of Cloth of Gold which cost the equivalent of £15m ($19m). Ostensibly organized as an affirmation of the 2 kings’ friendship, it also afforded them both the chance “to outdo the other".
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TIL that during the raid to kill Bin Laden nobody brought a tape measure and a 6 foot Seal was used as a human tape measure to verify Osama Bin Laden's height.