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TIL that most plastic isn’t actually recyclable

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mv9E TIL ‘affirmative action’ in the US is known as 'positive discrimination’ in the UK.
G0E4 TIL in 1915 a raisin company executive spotted a teenage girl drying her curly brown hair and wearing her mother’s red bonnet and hired her for a stunt promotion that had her dropping raisins from an airplane. Soon she became the company’s first mascot called, “Sun Maid.”
PYNpw TIL I learned about the Trans-Atlantic Accent which was cultivated Hollywood in the 1920's-40's to blend prestigious American and British accents for broader appeal, which is why people sound so different in older tv, films and radio back then.
pY4MO TIL that divorce is illegal in two places in the world: Philippines (except Muslims who have the right to divorce) and the Vatican City, an ecclesiastical sovereign city-state, which has no procedure for divorce.
mKYM TIL that a female humpback whale, near drowning, was freed by divers from a tangle of crab pots … then thanked them all, one at a time.