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TIL Bhutan is the only country with a negative carbon footprint

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4kgEX TIL: The current estimated time that it would take to free fall to the center of the earth is 38 minutes and 11 seconds.
AwNo TIL a 1994 letter from Johnny Cash to his wife June was voted the greatest love letter of all time. It beat out notes by English Romantic poet John Keats, Winston Churchill, Jimi Hendrix, and the great Hollywood lovers Richard Burton and Liz Taylor.
b67ZN TIL The Calgary Hitmen, a major junior hockey team that plays in the Western Hockey League, were named after Bret "The Hitman" Hart, a local-born WWF/WWE wrestler, who was a founding owner of the team in 1994.
0d8v1 TIL the Olympics held competitions in the fine arts from 1912 to 1948. Medals were given for literature, architecture, sculpture, painting, & music. The art created was required to be Olympic-themed.
M7b1W TIL that John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Reagan in 1981, bought his .22 Rohm RG-14 revolver from a pawn shop on Elm Street in Dallas, Texas, the exact same street President John F. Kennedy was assassinated at in 1963.