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TIL about carbon credits, which can be purchased by companies and individuals to offset the carbon dioxide they produce.
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TIL the Catholic Church used to castrate boys who accused priests of sexual abuse, as recently as the 1950’s
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TIL Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea from 2003 to 2008, killed himself in 2009 by jumping off a cliff. His left-wing party chose to delay the opening of parliament until the right-wing government of the time accepted responsibility for his suicide.
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TIL that Louis IX of France, also known as Saint Louis, was viewed as “primus inter pares” (first among equals) among the kings and rulers of Europe as he commanded the largest army and ruled the largest and wealthiest kingdom, the centre of European art and intellectual thought at the time.
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TIL that Franklin Roosevelt probably had an affair with Princess Martha of Norway. Invited to USA during WW2, she stayed at the White House and traveled with FDR. The president's son and others believed that Martha was Roosevelt's "last love".