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TIL that Namibia was the first country in the world to incorporate the protection of the environment into its constitution.

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D1ajr TIL Abba turned down a $1 billion offer to reunite
kO8we TIL in the 1990s, the Galapagos Conservancy launched Project Isabela, an all out war against 250,000 goats in the Galapagos Islands to save the dwindling population of Galapagos tortoises, and involved snipers picking goats off from helicopters. It ended up restoring the population of the tortoises.
loKlG TIL during World War 1 the Ottoman Empire rounded up and slaughtered over 1,500,000 Armenians living in their empire. This event was the basis for the creation of the word "Genocide".
698gY TIL about the Doorway Effect, where the simple act of walking through a doorway (both physical and virtual) can cause us to forget what we were just doing.
oRe5L Today I learned that the opposite of the placebo effect is called the nocebo effect, and occurs when a patient, believing he is taking a drug, is likely to recreate, by suggestion, side effects he may have heard about, or simply read about on the médication package.