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TIL today's Earth might not be habitable today had it not been for the 1987 Montreal Protocol

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78ndP TIL of the word monomania, a term used in 19th century psychiatry to describe a form of partial insanity conceived as single psychological obsession in an otherwise sound mind.
9wQeG TIL of castaway huts (or depots) which are deliberately placed on isolated islands by governments. They contain supplies and tools which can help people who become stranded there. Most were built by the New Zealand government in the 19th and 20th centuries.
npbb TIL that former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko was deliberately poisoned, which became apparent as his complexion seemed to age decades over the course of months.
loVdN TIL: If you ever got shrunk down to the size of an ant, not only would everything look bigger to you, but the world would also appear almost a million times darker, light would no longer appear straight meaning that the world around you would be covered in a haze of blurriness and shadow
myNY TIL that due to the events of 9/11, the Alt Hip-Hop group ‘The Coup’ had to change their [Party Music] album cover (depicting The Twin Towers blowing-up) before their initial September of 2001 release date. The scrapped album cover had been originally made back in June of that year…