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TIL The ozone hole, which was first spotted 25 years ago, is close to closing

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p8xje TIL a 14 year old pretended to work for “Canadian News” and scored at 40 minute interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
yl6X TIL the word Saudade, a Portuguese word with no English translation, means the empty sadness and longing for that which may never return that accompanies nostalgia.
e5bJ TIL of Hero ants. These ants live in cliffs/high places and latch onto intruders of the colony. They then fling themselves off the cliff, taking the intruder with them.
N7wpN TIL Former Governor of Colorado, Ralph L. Carr, was one of the only politicians who publicly opposed Japanese Internment at the time and his position on the issue destroyed his political career.
yVJD8 TIL Atom-bomb designer Hans Bethe fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and joined Cornell University where he stayed on as Professor until he died at 98 in 2005, the last of the giants of Los Alamos. The weapon’s reality “was worse than we expected,” Bethe recalled