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TIL Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours

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xVbY5 TIL when Weird Al Yankovic asked the publishers of The Kinks' Lola whether songwriter Ray Davies would allow its parody, Yoda, to be released, he got a negative response. However, when Yankovic met Davies five years later, Ray told him that he had never been asked and allowed Al to release Yoda.
epDVg TIL that Kraftwerk got paid 200.000 euros for the official Hannover Expo 2000 jingle. It was 4 seconds long!
KYLyE TIL bananas are radioactive
OoLyg TIL Joseph Smith ran for president in 1844. Smith had sent letters to the major candidates but all ignored him or did not commit to helping the Latter-day Saints. On 27 June Smith was killed by an angry mob, making him the first American presidential candidate to be assassinated.
R7M9a TIL that a black woman named Eunice Foote discovered the greenhouse effect in 1856 but everyone credits Irishman John Tyndell in 1859 instead.