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TIL that Norway is ranked as the country least likely to be affected by climate change. Chad is the most vulnerable.

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GA7O1 TIL Percival Lowell studied planets through the 24 inch Clark telescope and announced his discovery of canals and oases on Mars in 1894, which no other astronomers saw. Lowell used this telescope for the rest of his life and sketched Venus, despite the fact that it has no visible surface features
OGxER TIL that in 1981, the magazine Locus butchered the title of Gene Wolfe's next novel "The Citadel of the Autarch" and announced that it would be titled "The Castle of the Otter". Wolfe found the mistake so funny he actually published a book titled "The Castle of the Otter" the following year.
vPePL TIL that soldiers in Vietnam would sometimes claim "conscientious objector status" and resign from the military
4eN TIL Canada has nearly twice as many indigenous people as Brazil