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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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R7QD4 TIL The last American born into slavery died in 1972 at age 110 after being hit by a car.
Gky5 TIL North Korea has an estimated $6 TRILLION worth in mineral and rare Earth metal reserves, but cannot be mined because NK lacks the technology to do so.
k5gE TIL Murakami when writing a novel gets up at 4am writes for 6 hrs then runs 10k or swims 1500m (or both) then sleeps by 9pm because repetition is a form of mesmerism to reach a deeper state of mind
XEBw8 TIL Betsy Palmer only agreed to play the killer Mrs. Vorhees in Friday the 13th because she needed a new car, even though she believed the film to "be a piece of shit".
ne49o TIL because Grover Cleveland served on two non-consecutive terms as President, people get confused about the number of men that served as US Presidents (44) vs the number of Presidential Administrations (45).