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TIL Mark Zuckerberg said a voting mechanism that says whether posts are good or bad is ‘not something that we think is good for the world’

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ADaXn TIL China's single child policy resulted in groups of people that had never encountered genetic siblings. The notion of "sibling" was a hard one for the children to grasp - a task made more difficult by the Chinese tendency to use the term for "brother" or "sister" when talking about cousins
W7dJY TIL that coastal redwood trees can sequester 250 metric tons of carbon in their 2,500 year lifespan. The largest, the General Sherman tree, has sequestered 392 metric tons of carbon and is still growing.
4XNlb TIL that a Medal of Honor recipient from World War Two embarrassed a sitting US senator (who was also a KKK member) by publicly praising the efforts of African-American veterans.
j6BWj TIL when the emperor of Japan announced the surrender at the end of WW2 he did it in extremely formal and archaic words, the equivalent of an English speaker using Shakespearean language
A5gw TIL that if you hyperventilate before swimming underwater or diving, you artificially reduce the amount of CO2 in your bloodstream, preventing the body’s ‘urge to breathe’ trigger, making you blackout and rapidly drown without warning.