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wLRZJ TIL - In 2010, French cuisine earned a spot on UNESCO's World Heritage List. The "gastronomic meal of the French" is alongside other embodiments of "intangible" cultural heritage, including Peking opera and Corsican polyphonic chant, on UNESCO's list celebrating world art forms and traditions.
6OE8 TIL the United States Air Force Space Command commissioned Bill Nye to make a video for the Air Force called “Hollywood vs. EMP” so that the people who must deal with real EMP would not be confused by fiction.
eayk TIL that a Chinese law promulgated in 1981 requires that every citizen over the age of 11 plant at least one tree per year.
xQD TIL after WWII, the Allies conducted a massive ‘ethnic cleansing’ of German-speaking citizens from certain areas, resulting in app. 500,000 civilian deaths., some as slave laborers in Auschwitz and Theresienstadt, which were kept in operation.
59dP TIL that the confession bear is the “Malayan sun bear” and they are creepy as fuck.