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TIL - Buick has sold more cars in China than the US since 2006

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ADbP7 TIL Iceland was extensively forested before the first humans settled there. But within 500 years of their arrival 95% of woodlands had been cut down, leading to soil erosion, crop failure and the eventual abandonment of many farms.
dDl97 TIL a billionaire bought a California beach, blocked public access to it, and cited 1600s property rights to justify his actions. After years of lawsuits, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ruling that he violated state law, but the legal battle continues.
0dWlp TIL of the Explorer Douglas Mawson. Desperation led him to eat one of the sled dogs. Soon after the skin began peeling off his entire body due to acute vitamin A poisoning from the dog's liver.
0wDyR TIL that Abraham Lincoln's religious views are highly ambiguous and a matter of debate. He never joined any Church, and was a skeptic as a young man and sometimes ridiculed revivalists. Many friends and family of Lincoln rejected that he was a believing Christian.
OoAY TIL that in 1962, American scientists detonated an H-bomb in space. There was no fireball because there wasn’t any oxygen, but the blast was captured in now unclassified film footage