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TIL Namibia is also the only country to include protection of the natural world in its governmental constitution

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wLyg1 TIL there is government run service near me which will analyze drug samples anonymously sent to them and publish the results on their webpage
7X1P TIL watermelons originated in Africa and were first cultivated solely for their water content; their flavor was very bitter.
XXoE TIL: In 1979 a 16 year old girl sniped kids from her window with a .22 caliber rifle given to her for christimas just to liven up her monday.
xVJoD TIL that "Baby Huey" was a 400lbs Chicago soul singer who died in 1970 at age 26 after releasing a single album. The album later became hugely influential on early hip-hop artists, eventually being sampled on hundreds of tracks over the past ~40 years
J184j TIL that Alonzo Clemons suffered brain damage as a child due to a fall, which left him permanently disabled but gave him a prodigious talent for sculpting: he just needs to see an animal for a few seconds to make a perfectly anatomically accurate sculpture of it with his bare hands.