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TIL Coca Cola has depleted Indian village’s water for 16 years

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Np7P TIL: Thomas Jefferson invented his “wheel cypher” in the 1790s and a deceptively innovative little device it is. In fact, this machine was so far ahead of its time, it was still in active use in the US military 150 years later at the beginning of WW2.
a1ey TIL that 20 African countries are now collaborating to build the Great Green Wall of the Sahara, a wall of trees along the Sahara desert that would prevent further desertification and land degradation.
XEBkr TIL: Contact Tracing has been used to fight epidemics since 1854
JYmol TIL there is a town in New Mexico named "Truth or Consequences". They changed it from "Hot Springs" in 1950 to win a radio contest.
GYovE TIL that in Singapore, people who opt-out of donating their organs are put on a lower priority to receive an organ transplant than those who did not opt-out.