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TIL the happiest countries in the world also have the highest suicide rates.

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awvLb TIL The three days without civilian aircraft above the US following 9/11 provided useful data to climatologists about how climate is altered by the high altitude exhaust of planes.
x6XEk TIL about the "3-S Treatment" which stands for "Shoot Shovel and Shut up" a method used primarily in rural areas to prevent restrictions being place upon owned land due to the presence of Endangered Species by killing them and burying the evidence before they could be discovered by the government.
l6EA TIL: Some farmers add marijuana to pigs diet to make them fat and lazy.
NXjvJ TIL that Graf Zeppelin, the first zeppelin to cross the Atlantic, devoted about 30% of its total gas volume to non-lifting synthetic gas. It was used as fuel in combination with diesel to power the dirigible.
QJ1YL TIL that Eastern Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus Foetidus) is one of the few plants in the world with thermogenic properties. It can generate internal temperatures from 27-63°F through cellular respiration.