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TIL in 2012, Greenpeace convinced the Zambian government that it was better to let people starve to death rather than distribute golden rice, during a famine. Thus causing greater use of pesticide and unnecessary deaths

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Lk8vr TIL that 1000's of Sperm Whales were killed each year to make car automatic transmission fluid. The practice was only halted in the 1970s by the Endangered Species Act.
pYYMA TIL that after a thief stole the Lone Ranger's custom Pearl Handled Colt Pistols from the actor Clayton Moore's luggage, he was caught by the police and sentenced to one month in jail and 600 hours of shoveling horse manure at the police stables.
XNxE TIL a high school principal in Florida hypnotized dozens of anxious students and athletes to help them relax. When two of those students committed suicide and one died in a car accident, the principal was charged with two misdemeanors and lost his teaching license.
xLaB TIL Jason Everman, former guitarist of Nirvana, became an Army Ranger then became Green Beret Special Forces.
gl5X TIL no one knows exactly how many Federal Laws are currently enacted in the United States.