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TIL that India broke a Guinness World Record, planted 66 million trees in just 12 hours!!

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X0JDX TIL in the mid-1980s there was a Nerds cereal and that the box had two separate compartments and each compartment had its own flavor. It also came with a mail-in offer for a two-sided Nerds bowl that had a "Nerd Gate" that when lifted would allow milk on one side of the bowl to flow into the other.
0w471 TIL "Blah Blah Blah" saying came from Ancient Greece. The term was "bar bar bar". Taken from the same root as barbarian, it implied the words beings spoken were "meaningless noises",
6EbD7 TIL Yuan Shikai was elected the first official president of the Republic of China, and was active in establishing modern industrial, judicial and educational systems as well as unifying the currency. As a young man, Yuan was also sent to Korea as supreme adviser on Korean government policies
VxpZ TIL In the late 1980s, young punk rockers in Cuba, known as “los frikis,” were so fed-up with the stifling life of the communist regime that they chose to inject themselves with the AIDS virus so they could live in a sanitarium and be free from constant police-state harassment.
D9rv TIL that when asked what his IQ was, Stephen Hawking said “I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.”