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TIL the United States did not annex the entirety of Mexico after the Mexican-American war because of racism

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J1QpV TIL of the Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel, a plan to plant continent-wide wall of trees stretching from Djibouti, Djibouti to Dakar, Senegal. The goal is to combat desertification in the Sahel region and hold back the Sahara desert.
MeD18 TIL that the five largest tobacco companies pay US$9 billion dollars to state governments, each and every year, forever, because of a 1998 legal settlement meant to compensate states for the costs of tobacco-related illness such as cancer, emphysema and heart disease.
896Z TIL that the deepest artificial hole on Earth is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia. It is 12,262m deep, which is 1% of the distance from Earth’s center.
yyKX TIL the Nation of Islam believes a scientist named Yakub created the white race in a 600 year eugenics program on the island of Patmos.
Y7pMr TIL Idaho has an anti-sodomy law that criminalizes anal or oral sex between all genders and forces individuals convicted to register as sex offenders.