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TIL Asphalt pavements are America's most recycled product. Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) can be recycled into pavement that is as high, or even higher, in quality as pavements made of all-virgin materials. And, the same material can be recycled again and again; it never loses its value.

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x6jP0 TIL the earliest known name for a pet was Nedjem, a cat owned by Puimre high priest of Amun in the 15th Century BC. Nedjem translates to 'the sweet one', meaning the very first named pet was a Sweetie.
Zmna TIL Google rents goats to replace lawnmowers at their Mountain View headquarters
b9WM9 TIL Gayla Peevey, the little girl who sang, "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas," is still alive, and was only ten years old when she recorded the song in 1953.
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