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TIL Bhutan is the worlds only carbon negative country, every year it removes more carbon from the atmosphere than it produces. It achieved this by powering itself from hydroelectricity, banning log exporting, and amending it’s constitution to legally protect its forested area from dropping below 60%

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aWNM TIL Steven Segal once killed a puppy and 111 chickens while attempting to arrest a man…with a tank.
1Db8 TIL after the first edit of Star Wars came back as clunky and lackluster, Lucas spliced together a cut of World War II dogfights. The space battle in the final film is a frame for frame re-enactment of this. (1h41s)
yQagl TIL in 2000, Canadian opposition leader Stockwell Day proposed referendums on internet petitions if they reached 350,000 signatures - or about 3% of the population. A comedian proposed that Stockwell Day legally change his first name to Doris. It got over 370,000 signatures
KOBX6 TIL that in order for a tesla coil to generate long arcs the previous arc ionizes the air and then the second arc (which is fired faster than the first can dissipate) jumps through the first arc, affectively doubling the arc length.
EVn0 TIL that during the Battle of Okinawa, Around 80,000 Japanese civilians committed suicide after being convinced by the Japanese Army that they would be “Tortured, Raped, and Murdered” by the American forces after they invaded. It is known as the biggest Mass suicide in history.