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TIL that most recycling companies throw out plastic water bottles that still have the cap on, due to it being a different type of plastic than the bottle.

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rRBao TIL Queen Elizabeth II was tricked into conducting a 17-minute telephone conversation with a Canadian radio DJ/impressionist who she believed to be the then Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chretien.
5V0BD TIL that Thalidomide, the drug responsible for thousands of birth defects across Europe in the 1950s/60s, was developed by a doctor who had previously worked for the Nazis, experimenting on concentration camp victims
m101p TIL Cows Have Been Shown Not Only To Have Friends, But Best Friends & Experience Stress On Separation
XEvp6 TIL of Arek Hersh, a Jewish man who survived the Holocaust as a child. At the age of 14, he was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was tattooed with the number B7608 and had his only photographs of his family ripped away from him. The Holocaust killed 81 members of his family. Only his sister survived.
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