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TIL Norway has over $800 billion invested for future generations. They only invest ethically, and have excluded companies like Boeing for making nukes, Raytheon for making cluster bombs, and Wal-Mart for human rights violations. The investments may be worth as much as $3.3 trillion by 2030.

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46Jg TIL on 18/04/1930 on the BBC News the news was that there was no news.
6bgl TIL that in 2017 Norway will be the first country in the world to shut down FM radio and go digital instead.
xV9vD TIL that despite being only 100 miles from each other, Somoa and American Somoa will enter the new decade 25 hours apart. Residents can take a 30 minute flight back into 2019 and celebrate the New Year again more than a day later.
VBEvZ TIL The movie “Shaun of the Dead” uses the word “fuck” 45 times in its 1 hour 37 minute run time. Roughly 1 “fuck” for every 2 minutes
9YaYG TIL that pathologist Jack Kevorkian publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by physician-assisted suicide and because of this was often portrayed in the media with the name of "Dr. Death". He said that he assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He was convicted of murder in 1999.