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TIL They are so good at recycling, Sweden actually imports garbage

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QJgVX TIL that at least twice, CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta has been on location reporting, but needed to step in as a neurosurgeon: once on a Marine in Iraq, the other on a little girl injured during the Haitian earthquake.
9MA7 TIL When Will Ferrell met RHCP drummer Chad Smith he looked him up and down and said: “You´re very handsome,” and then walked away.
KOGd6 TIL about the Texas Archive War, in which Texas fought a (small) civil war over the location of official documents
V7VB TIL James Bond villain Yaphet Kotto has expressed that the spy should not be played by a black man, saying “Political correctness be damned, we have to stay with what is literally correct. These roles are not written for black men" and “We have pens to create roles that no one else has established.”
4ke1R TIL the U.S. built a fort to defend against Canada in 1816, but they accidentally built it in Canada. They call it Fort Blunder.