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TIL that the $100 billion tobacco industry in Indonesia is virtually unregulated. With grade school aged children as a prime target, it is common for males to start smoking as early as age 6. Tobacco smoke is also used as a holistic treatment for diseases and cancers of the body.

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BrpKk TIL Lithuania's Olympic basketball team was able to participate in the 1992 Games despite post-independence financial issues partly thanks to a sponsorship from the Grateful Dead. They returned home in tie dye uniforms with bronze medals.
1aOrP TIL Finland has planted 150 million trees per year for decades. For a small nation of 5½ million people that means 27 trees per person. If the entire European Union were to do the same, there would be nearly 14 billion trees planted every year in the EU.
nebjd TIL about a New Jersey history professor who was telling a story to his class about how a ranger saved his life in a canyon at night in Texas in 1940. The ranger had managed to track him down and coincidentally walked in to the classroom right as the professor was telling the story.
b9g4a TIL More Indians died in World War 2 war efforts than the Britons, Americans and French Combined
OGypL TIL: In 2023, Stanford found the particular neuronal circuit responsible for male libido by experimenting with mice that has not seen a female for 3-4 weeks. This could lead to drugs that severely boosts or dampens male libido without changing aggression or blood flow like modern drugs.