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TIL Bhutan is the only country with a negative carbon footprint

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QJ8Ja TIL that under Franklin Delano Roosevelt there was an "Indian New Deal" and its "goal was to reverse the traditional goal of assimilation of Indians into American society and to strengthen, encourage and perpetuate the tribes and their historic traditions and culture."
9Ywpp TIL that 50-80% of Cali firefighters in the brush are female and male inmates that make about $2/day, yet even after years of experience they can't become firefighters when they are released because CA doesn't hire ex-felons.
QJeAX TIL about Beanie Babies, a type of stuffed toys which became the world's first internet sensation in 1995.
kOng1 TIL Fascist Dictator Benito Mussolini was part of the Italian Socialist Party during WW1 before being expelled.
e0Jjn TIL scientists have found brain tissue from AD 79 preserved as glass