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TIL 91% of plastic isn’t recycled and not because people don’t sort it

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VBNYG TIL that Dryococelus australis, a stick insect considered extinct since 1920, was rediscovered in 2001 in the only bush in Ball's pyramid–an uninhabited islet in the Pacific Ocean between Australia and New Zealand, and the tallest volcanic stack in the world.
N7Kbe TIL The Byrds’ “Turn, Turn, Turn” has the distinction in the US of being the #1 hit with the oldest lyrics, as 99% of it was written by King Solomon in the 10th century BCE, then rearranged by Pete Seeger in the late 1950s.
GYL0j TIL: There are frameworks being researched for “mind uploading” the functioning human brain to a synthetic substrate related to the development of neural prosthetic technologies—raising concerns, as noted, about beliefs of continuity of identity. pdf
v1oB4 TIL Shia LaBeouf came under heavy fire for plagiarizing his directorial debut in 2012. When he publicly apologized to the original artist, Dan Clowes, people discovered that Shia's apology was itself plagiarized verbatim off a Yahoo Answers post from 2010.
4kWr6 TIL that Bangkok’s real name is the longest place name in the world. The name is 168 characters long and composed of Pali and Sanskrit.