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TIL that with the aim of launching guerrilla operations against the Chinese, the CIA funded the Dalai Lama $1.7 million a year in the 1960s

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lJmK TIL that Japan owns almost as much US debt as China does, but neither own as much as people believe.
7r1GM TIL being in the US Congress was originally considered a civic duty and only paid $5,000
Oo0BX TIL: The Prince Philip Movement is a religious sect followed by the Kastom people on the southern island of Tanna in Vanuatu. It is a cargo cult of the Yaohnanen tribe, who believe that Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the consort to Queen Elizabeth II, is a divine being.
awjZ0 TIL A couple in Brazil planted 2 million trees over 20 years in order to bring back a rainforest that was destroyed due to deforestation. Now the area has status as a Private Natural Heritage Reserve and is home to 172 types of birds, 33 varieties of mammals, and 15 kinds of reptiles and amphibians.
XEroD TIL Killer whales in the wild have not been responsible for a single human casualty.