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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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xl47 TIL that during the Holocaust in Poland, a member of the Nazi Party Albert Battel saved over a hundred Jews from liquidation by going into the ghetto with army trucks and transported the Jews to the barracks of the local Wehrmacht platoon, at there they were under the protection of the Wehrmacht.
kgOW TIL of Godwin’s law. It states “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one”.
GYNwJ TIL that in 1988 the Australian Parliament "borrowed" the original copy of the Australian Constitution from Britain (it was originally a British Act of Parliament) and simply never gave it back.
PYRrE TIL a man named Mani Manithan walked backwards for 25+ years to promote world peace
gyj9 TIL Wɑlmɑrt leveled prehistoric Native American burial mounds for fill dirt.