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TIL Bhutan is the world's only carbon negative country. The constitution demands at least 60% of the country covered in forest, making it a sink of over four million tonnes of CO2 per year.

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nJlY TIL that according the stories in the Bible God killed minimum 2,400,000 people, while Satan killed only about 10.
YEJB TIL that the phrase “going postal” is derived from a series of incidents from 1986 onward in which USPS workers shot and killed managers, fellow workers, and members of the police or general public in acts of mass murder
loJXG TIL that actor Ed Helms who plays Stu in the Hangover movies, had a tooth implant from when he was 15, which he removed while shooting for the first Hangover where his character has a tooth missing for most of the film.
wL7x8 Til, Heracleitus, sick with Dropsy, tried to cure it by covering himself in cow dung, thinking that it would draw the bad humours out. One version claims that the manure was too wet and he drowned in it, another that it was too dry and he dried out, third version says dogs ate him whole.
OGMN1 Til that should never give Honey to any child under 1 years old as it could cause them to get severely ill and die.