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TIL Canada produces more waste per capita than any other developed nation.

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eKEk TIL there are rainbow mountains in China that have formed as the result of 24 million years of multicolored sandstone pressed together.
VBGOp TIL Pablo Escobar, the infamous Colombian drug lord, invested millions in developing Medellín's impoverished neighborhoods. He funded the construction of housing complexes, parks, football stadiums, hospitals, schools, and churches, earning him a reputation among some as "Robin Hood."
E1L7 TIL on August 12, 1944, the German SS entered the Italian village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema and killed every living thing, including 110 children (the youngest being only 20 days old) and 8 pregnant women, by machine gun and hand grenade. The massacre took 3 hours. Then they set the corpses on fire.
6E61l TIL The only real world example of sky pirates happened in 1917 when a Norwegian ship was captured by a German raiding party who boarded and seized the ship from a Zeppelin.
x6LVk TIL in the '40s theatrical producer John Reber promoted a plan to build two dams to change most of San Francisco Bay into two freshwater lakes. He got a lot of support, but the US Army Corps of Engineers built a giant working model of the bay to show how this plan was a terrible idea