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TIL a man revived 5 rivers and brought water back to 1000 villages in India using native water-preservation techniques

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LQEwm TIL the green on the flag of Brazil represents the House of Braganza for Pedro I while the yellow represents the House of Habsburg for Empress Maria Leopoldina
8eRnP TIL, the CIA hunted down top Nazi scientists after WWII, in hopes of convincing them to help develop weapons and the space program that took the US to the moon. These Nazis and their families received full American Citizenship and their war crimes were well known to the officers that found them
vKxr TIL that in 1869, Chinese and Irish labourers working on the Central Pacific Railway managed to lay down 10 miles of tracks in just one day, something that has never been matched since.
v1vyB TIL that 160 container ships have the same carbon footprint as all the cars in the world combined, yet the emissions from container ships are not included in global carbon emissions testing as they are typically beyond national boundaries
rRbaM TIL that carpal tunnel syndrome is likely genetic, and there's very little evidence that it's linked to overuse