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TIL that frontier physician Isaac Coe is credited with saving Indianapolis from an 1821 outbreak of malaria

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rWje TIL that 2000 residents in Ramsar, Iran, receive an average of 10x the safe background radiation dose without any increase in cancer rates: several times more radiation than found in Pripyat, the ghost town near the Chernobyl power plant.
l7Br7 TIL : Environmental activist Julia “Butterfly” Hill lived in a 1500 year old California redwood tree (known as Luna) 180 feet (55 mm) off the ground for 738 days in order to prevent it from being chopped down by Pacific Lumber Company. She successfully saved the tree.
d8RXZ TIL In 2012, The City Of Brussels Erected A Life-Sized Statue of Jean Claude Van Damme.
5Vdmn TIL about Grape the Humboldt penguin from the Tobu Zoo in Japan, who fell in love with a cutout of an anime character.
LQOK9 TIL that if every US citizen consumed the recommended amount of daily fruits and veggies that the world’s agriculture actually couldn’t support it