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TIL that bug spray doesn’t actually repel bugs, it masks your scent so they don’t find you as easily

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JYGKV TIL 12 counties in Africa are building a 9 mile wide tree wall all the way across the continent to prevent the Sahara from advancing
BgOPW TIL that Anthony W. Case had hoped of playing college baseball until he was shot in 1998, with injuries that prevented him from doing so. After this, he decided to pursue a career in astrophysics, and has since helped develop Faraday cups on space probes, including the Parker Solar Probe.
mQPy TIL there are over 50,000 Chinese characters. An educated Chinese person would only know about 8,000.
9EpQ TIL of “l'appel du vide” - “the call of the void” - that weird urge you get to jump when you are on a tall building or high place, looking down.
6EmQZ TIL in 2006, a freelance journalist from California was jailed by federal district court for 226 days. This is because he refused to turn over his videotapes of an anti-G8 protest, in which some protesters vandalized property and one of them being choked by a cop