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TIL Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, founded the Green Belt Movement, which planted tens of millions of trees in Kenya. She faced imprisonment and violent opposition for her environmental and pro-democracy activism

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6LZ7 TIL that during the 2014 Thai coup d'etat, sandwiches were used as an anti-coup symbol, and a group of students were charged with “possessing sandwiches with ill intent”.
9ewD TIL that in 1942, business leaders in Winnipeg, Canada organized an “If day” where they simulated a Nazi invasion and occupation of the city. The fear generated during the event was a very successful fundraising tool, which managed to raise over 3 million Canadian dollars for the war effort.
xeE5 TIL Tom Morello (RATM, Audioslave, The Nightwatchman) was born to a civil rights advocate and a Kenyan revolutionary. He also graduated from Harvard University.
kLgm TIL: There are still people around with plutonium-powered nuclear pacemakers implanted in their bodies. 9 were still working as of 2007, 35 years after implantation. They work on the same thermoelectric principle as the New Horizons spacecraft’s power source.
GAvYJ TIL: Mindfulness has been shown to be as effective as Escitalopram for the treatment of Anxiety Disorders