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TIL that China’s toxic air pollution is so severe it impedes photosynthesis and resembles nuclear winter

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rRRGe TIL that Lithuania has a festival where people dress out as gypsies and jews and goes around asking for money
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D1nbv TIL that Bhutan is the only country in the world that by its own constitution protects its forests, and the country measures progress not through its Gross Domestic Product but through "Gross National Happiness."
ajVL TIL that there is a town called Okay in OK.