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TIL Greenland has to import Christmas trees because they cannot grow that far north

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6EoGW TIL about Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Island and a buried tomb that rests there.
9Y1EB TIL “Whoever [...] unlawfully secretes, destroys, detains, delays, or opens any letter[...] or mail,[...] delivered from any post office or station thereof established by authority of the Postmaster General or the Postal Service, shall be fined [...] or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
8adlZ TIL about Nikolai Vavilov, a Soviet botanist whose aim was to end hunger worldwide. He collected seeds of wild crops and deposited them in a seedbank in which to produce new strains of crops. Stalin denounced him and used him as a scapegoat for a famine. He died in prison from starvation.
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