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TIL the Brazilian city of Curitoba, with its sustainability model, inspired 100+ cities worldwide. Curitiba's sustainability model focuses on eco-friendly transit, green spaces, and recycling. This holistic approach prioritizes environmental and social well-being while fostering economic growth.

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p89vA TIL that Winona Ryder was born in a town named Winona.
4aZ6 TIL that Scientologists tried to hijack the Hugo Awards in 1987, filling the World Science Fiction Convention with cultists in order to promote L. Ron Hubbard’s science fiction novel
mK0O TIL the Nazis’ post war plans for the USSR consisted of killing over 100 million “racially inferior Slavs” by extermination through labor, starvation, and deportation while enslaving the remaining survivors as illiterate serfs on German plantations.
Ok4e TIL that the firm formerly known as “Blackwater” and now as “Academi” [sic] deployed 400 Mercs to suppress anti-government protestors in Ukraine during 2014.
kOQw5 TIL the Great Salt Lake in Utah has an Island with over 500 wild bison