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TIL Bhutan is the only country with a negative carbon footprint

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ne457 TIL most people who have cars with built in GPS use their phones for directions.
4p4a TIL popcorn has been eaten for almost 7,000 years and is one of the oldest snacks in history
QvO6 TIL WWII Japan killed 4 million more people than the Nazis, practiced Mengele-like human experimentation, cannibalized and tortured POWs, and forced women into military sex slavery
NXgnE TIL that the Giants and Dodgers used to be based in New York and Brooklyn respectively. For different reasons they both coincidentally moved to the West Coast around the same time, continuing their same-state rivalry
e0xL5 TIL that tensions between the US and UK nearly escalated to war over the killing of a pig in 1859. An American farmer on a disputed island found the pig eating potatoes in his garden and shot it, and after the British threatened arrest, the settlers called for help. Both sides sent major forces.