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TIL that 75% of the Aluminum ever mined is stillin use today, meaning a soda can you once used could have ended up being recycled for use in a Satellite or rocket booster

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dDyXK TIL Giorgio Moroder (Daft Punk collaborator) once released an album with Michael Holm titled Spinach, whose cover art featured a nude woman covered in the titular vegetable.
LxNm TIL That for ever 1 hour of flight time, the F-22 Raptor requires 30 hours of maintenance, and costs $44,000 per flight hour.
kJZ7m TIL that Michael Böllner the German actor who played Augustus Gloop in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, became a tax accountant and had no idea how popular the movie was in America until he was invited to a fan convention decades later.
od6A TIL the oldest living tree is a Norway Spruce that is 9,550 years old, which makes it roughly 3,500 years older than the invention of writing.
epjMJ TIL no time zone has been assigned to the North Pole, so any time can be used as the local time