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TIL Illegal coal mining activities in Mongolia, and the intense use of coal burned on simple stoves has turned a region of Mongolia once famed for its blue skies into one of the world’s most polluted

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lo8R1 TIL that NFL lineman Chris Long is going to donate his entire salary from this season to educational charities in three cities.
bMQ4 TIL Daniel Radcliffe’s stuntdouble for the first 6 Harry Potter movies is paralyzed from an accident on set during the filming of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows….X-Post r/Wtf_facts
GYP8J TIL Casey Kasem declined to reprise his role as Shaggy in "Scooby Doo on Zombie Island" because he had recently gone vegan and wanted that reflected in the character, which was not upheld. This resulted in Billy West's one and only credit for portraying Shaggy.
nW5nB TIL the officer in charge of guarding Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theater left his post to go drinking at the same bar where John Wilkes Booth was building up the courage to shoot the President.
nmd9 TIL The ceremony of the keys at the Tower of London has gone on almost uninterrupted for 700 years. It was late once during WWII due to a number of bombs hitting the guard room, knocking the guards and Yeoman warder over. The officer in charge personally wrote a letter to the king to apologise.