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TIL there is a full episode of “Everybody Loves Hypnotoad”

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JLe8 TIL that due to human efforts, the ozone layer will recover to 1980 levels by 2050, and be fully repaired by 2070.
J1rV1 TIL of democratic backsliding, the process through which a democratic government is gradually replaced by an autocratic one. Since 2010, the number of democracies backsliding into autocracy has been higher than those adopting democracies. Scholars have called this the third wave of autocrization
Ook4Y TIL Alice In Chains began recording “Dirt” in LA on April 29, 1992, the first day of the riots. They broke to Joshua Tree to process the experience and continue writing before returning to finish the album.
dDy6r TIL that the only woman to ever appear on an US Dollar banknote has been Martha Washington. She appeared on the 1886 and 1891 series of one-dollar silver certificates. Her portrait was used again next to her husband, George, on the back of the 1896 one-dollar note
4kVPa TIL about the famous American novelist Winston Churchill who was the reason why the British prime minister referred to himself as Winston Spencer Churchill. They met on occasion, but gradually Spencer Churchill’s rise to power steamrolled the American into obscurity.