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TIL Sweden is so good at recycling that it has to import garbage from Norway to fuel its energy programs

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Zpola TIL that according to an ancient Indian legal text (3rd-5th century CE), women could borrow money independently and own property rights in ancestral property that Indian daughters only legally regained in 2005
ddkr TIL Brazil has replaced almost 42 percent of its gasoline needs with sugarcane ethanol – making gasoline the alternative fuel in the country.
KOXnB TIL Water firms in the UK are still using Divining Rods to search for leaks and pipes.
7809x TIL that, during the African humid period (late Pleistocene to early Holocene), Sahara was an open grass savannah with shrubs and trees, lakes and rivers, populated with crocodiles, frogs and baboons
9YEWr TIL that 50% of Roger Federer's name is "er"