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TIL The 2008 Constitution of Ecuador recognized nature as an entity with legally enforceable rights, making it the first country in the world to do so.

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epjBb TIL that during WWII, ‘Rumor Clinics’ were set up to dispel morale-damaging gossip.
W74WY TIL about General Butt Naked. A former child soldier and Liberian warlord who killed thousands, sacrificed many children and performed a lot of cannibalism. He is now an evangelical preacher and helps street children
Z8RD4 TIL about the Aleutian Islands campaign, or the "Forgotten Battle". Between disease, booby traps, a massive Banzai charge that ended in brutal hand to hand combat and a friendly fire incident instigated by a Canadian soldier, more than 5,800 died in the campaign.
eJ4n TIL When Georgia’s Savanah airport attempted to expand a runway in the 1980’s they were not given permission from a family to relocate two graves that lay on the property. The airport paved over the graves and laid two headstones flat with the runway.
QQZ9 TIL of Cunningham’s Law: “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.”