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TIL of the Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel, a plan to plant continent-wide wall of trees stretching from Djibouti, Djibouti to Dakar, Senegal. The goal is to combat desertification in the Sahel region and hold back the Sahara desert.

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wLWw8 TIL that almost 1/3 of all the morphine in the world is derived in a city in Turkey called "Afyon" which literally means Opium.
OogD4 TIL that Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, guest-starred in a 1992 episode of L.A. Law as a fired theme park employee who wore a Homer Simpson costume.
awjEJ TIL Fish can feel pain, have the constituents for sentience, and Herring in particular, communicate through farts.
57xD TIL “Scientific” tests to determine if Marijuana kills brain cells actually asphyxiated test subjects causing brain damage due to lack of oxygen, not because of the marijuana.
b600Z TIL that a careful examination of Nestlé’s marketing behaviour shows that Nestlé’s entry into low- and middle-income formula markets caused about 212,000 infant deaths per year among mothers without clean water access at the peak of the Nestlé controversy in 1981