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TIL there are over two million saunas in Finland and 5 million inhabitants, making an average of one sauna per household

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pY9YZ TIL a study found significant increase in green biomass over 40% of the planet from 1982 to 2015, while a significant decrease in vegetation was seen in only 4% of the surface
nep9o TIL that three people stole $18 million dollars worth of Maple Syrup in Quebec. This was over the course of about a year.
gr1KX TIL in 1959, John Howard Griffin passed himself as a Black man and travelled around the Deep South to witness segregation and Jim Crow, afterward writing about his experience in "Black Like Me"
yQL7v TIL to make Crash Bandicoot work Naughty Dog had to hack the original playstation.
j85n TIL NASA validated space drive engine technology it had been dismissing as impossible for years. this engine converts electric power into thrust with no need for propellant. NASA can not explain how it works, but has named it the “quantum vacuum plasma thruster”