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TIL: Nearly 75% of all aluminum every produced is still in circulation due to recycling

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aw6pZ TIL that the term "Dumpster" is actually a brand name, just like kleenex is for tissues.
dmwZ TIL there is a woman who was given the legal birth name of Marijuana Pepsi Jackson
XEV06 TIL there was a US Marine Sergeant in WWII named Hitler. When asked why he didn't change his name he simply said, "Let the other guy change his".
VBNBD TIL the Nine-banded armadillos, the only armadillo species found in America always gives birth to identical quadruplets.
M7gYa TIL that jazz musicians shut off their dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, responsible for self-monitoring performance, and activate their medial prefrontal cortex, which helps with storytelling. This resembles our brain patterns while dreaming.