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TIL there is a charity that uses natural geographic features and strategic protection of land to block huge areas of rainforest from logging, making it extremely cost-effective

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KYNm6 TIL Norway knighted a king penguin, Sir Nils Olav III, colonel-in-chief of the Norwegian King's Guard and baron of the Bouvet Islands
6kml TIL that forests cover over 50% of Sweden, there are also around 100,000 lakes and over 24,000 islands throughout the country. Sweden’s right to public access laws allows these areas to be fully accessible by the public.
wL4oP TIL that Mt. Everest is littered with dead bodies which serve as progress markers for some climbers
kJJ8d TIL that Xanadu is an alternative name for Shangdu, the summer capital of Kublai khan and the yuan dynasty in general. The name Xanadu itself and its meaning as a metaphor for a place of opulence was popularized by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his poem about Kublai khan.
ANLV7 TIL That the September 1984 issue of Penthouse featuring Vanessa Williams is illegal to own since that month's centerfold was a then unknown Traci Lords.