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TIL the USSR planted trees on battlefields instead of recovering fallen soldiers

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mxXYM TIL that although they live in a climate inhospitable to crop development, the Inuit do not suffer from vitamin C deficiency (scurvy) due to their diet of frozen and raw fish and mammal organs. By not cooking the food, the vitamin C is not broken down and can be absorbed by the human body.
D1xJ TIL that the hacker group, UGNazi, took down the Papa Johns website because their pizza was 2 hours late.
eaaL TIL That the US Government made $51 billion in profits off of student loans last year, which is “more than any Fortune 500 company and about five times the profit of Google.”
4bBN TIL As a knife-wielding assassin jumped out of a crowd of people & lunged toward the President of the Maldives, a quick-thinking Boy Scout who was standing in the crowd in his uniform grabbed the blade & saved the leader’s life. As in the US, the motto of the Maldivian Boy Scouts is: “Be Prepared.”
mx1AE TIL Only 11% of Japanese people are willing to fight for their country, the lowest in the world. In both Morocco and Fiji, it is 94%.