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TIL that only 5% - 6% of plastic waste in the US is recycled

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wmKo TIL a city in Wales installed pink LEDs to deter teenage loitering because it highlighted their acne
BrnQL TIL in the UK, the 5 archbishops and 21 most senior bishops of the Church of England are automatically granted 26 seats at the House of Lords (UK's Senate), with full voting powers. According to Humanists UK, the only other country to give clerics this kind of power is the Islamic Republic of Iran.
W76XX TIL that somebody wrote a fake scientific paper that consisted almost entirely of the phrase “get me off your fucking mailing list”.
M16a TIL that there is a flower that literally looks like a set of hooker’s lips and it’s actually called “Hooker’s Lips”
Rd6Q TIL after a two year study in India it was found that over 60% of a Indian men’s penises are too small for the standard international condom. Creating a 20% failure rate.