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TIL that there's a company in the UK that takes wet coffee waste and turns it into things like coffee flavouring, and bio-fuel logs and pellets

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R5B09 TIL that Cunard intended to name its largest ship after the late Queen Victoria. It asked the current King for permission to name it after "Britain's greatest queen", but the King, thinking they were referring to his wife, Queen Mary, agreed. Cunard was forced to change the name to the Queen Mary.
mX7v TIL over 11% of all Americans are infected with parasitic Pinworms, which make your ass itch at night when they come crawling out of your anus to lay their eggs. This makes you scratch your ass and helps these sticky eggs spread, often to your own breakfast, thereby repeating the cycle.
78Yxr TIL what Jamie Hyneman (Mythbusters) has been up to- he built a Wildfire-fighting Tank with Palmer Luckey (Oculus founder) and Jim Newton (Techshop founder).
41bJ TIL that the Gobekli Tepe, which predates Stonehenge by over 6,000 years, is a large monument built in the middle of nowhere. It predates the invention of known tools, cities/communities, and the written word.
0dGD1 TIL that most of the moons of Uranus are named after Shakespeare characters.