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TIL: A Man In India Has Planted A Forest Bigger Than Central Park to Save His Island

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nAm9 Today I learned that in 2013 we dropped thousands of parachuting dead mice packed with painkillers onto snakes in Guam.
kvY5 TIL that in the 1805 Constitution of Haiti, only blacks could be citizens, and whites were prohibited from owning land.
5YO0R TIL in 1976, the team studying a newly-identified virus in Africa didn't want to name it after the village where it was found, so they named it after the closest river they could see on a map, which was the Ebola River.
wLBv7 TIL That smiling in public is frowned upon in Russian culture. Excessive smiling is seen as a sign of dishonesty, insincerity, or even stupidity. Russians also tend to not smile in photographs for this reason.
1k0D TIL- There is a Star Wars comic where Han Solo and Chewbacca crash into Earth after using Hyperspace blindly. Native American’s kill Han and his body is discovered by Indiana Jones 126 years later while searching for Bigfoot, which turns out to be Chewbacca.