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TIL much of Europe’s claims to carbon neutrality is burning freshly cut wood imported from the Americas in old Coal Plants

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p8mAb TIL that if you served, and survived, on the USS ARIZONA during the attack on Pearl Harbor, you can choose to be buried at sea with your crew mates. There are only 4 people left are eligible for this type of burial.
d8jmB Today I learned (TIL) There was a 74.9% increase in female enrollment in computer science bachelor’s programs between 2012 and 2018. Go #womenintech!
gEr4 TIL that there is a tribe in Papua New Guinea where the women ambush men for sex and can urinate on him and bite off his eyebrow and eyelashes if they aren’t satisfied!
jBQv TIL an 8ft. LEGO man labeled ‘No Real Than You Are’ washed up on a Dutch beach in 2007. Origins remain unknown.
BQ9b TIL The popular Mexican folkloric hero ‘Zorro’ actually existed. And he was Irish.