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TIL That since 1990 the United States has added more acres of forest than it has lost, with almost 20 million new acres of forest land added in the last 2 decades.

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7aOb TIL that Superman was originally a left-wing superhero who fought “crooked” businessmen and unscrupulous politicians, demolished tenement houses, and attacked the KKK and wife beaters.
edMn TIL the Aryan Brotherhood makes up less than 1/10th of 1% of American prisoners, but is responsible for 18% of prison murders
4Xyxg TIL: That John Wilkes Booth is said to be the first actor to have his clothes torn by fans. His good looks and charm made him an early American heat throb
N7L6P TIL of the "Southern Strategy", in which GOP politicians like Goldwater and Nixon developed campaign strategies designed to appeal to southern racism, successfully realigning the white & conservative Democratic voters in the South to vote Republican, further pushing the party rightward
XYOR TIL In 1953 US and UK overthrow first Iranian democratic government because Iran wanted to nationalize the petroleum reserves.