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Today I learned Australia has re-started industrial logging old growth forests in bush fire affected areas

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b9Xo0 TIL that every year Mariah Carey earns £376,000 (approx $485,000 USD) in royalties from "All I want for Christmas"
m8yP TIL that, because of the amount of granite in its construction, Grand Central Station produces more radiation than is allowable at a nuclear power plant.
lo6BA TIL that Star Trek's William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols performed the first interracial kiss on TV. At the time polls showed that fewer than 20 percent of Americans agreed with interracial relationships.
1aDwr TIL of a man, who in 1977 rode his bike from India to Sweden to be with the women he would end up marrying.
x6LnB TIL that there is an Episcopal saint, Rev. Charles Carroll Parsons, who was at one point the defense council to Lieutenant Colonel Custer who died at the Battle of Little Big Horn.