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TIL in the 90s Costa Rica saved a dying forest by dumping 12,000 tons of waste orange peels and pulp (1000 truckloads)

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kO0l1 TIL when John Bardeen won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956, the Swedish king criticized him for not bringing his children to the ceremony. Bardeen promised he would bring them the next time he won - and in 1972, he did when he became the first person to win 2 prizes in the same field.
9w5Lp TIL can someone explain this !
QJv1e TIL that due to the high number of foreigners in the UAE, where citizens make up only 11% of the population, the country is 72% male.
BgEOb TIL Queen Victoria's half-brother served as revolutionary Germany's head of government in 1848
aD0M TIL the Original Ronald McDonald was fired for being overweight