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TIL 11 African countries are building a Great Green Wall of trees across the Sahara.

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NX8X6 TIL FBI agent John O’Neill, who left his federal position because his attempts to warn of an imminent al-Qaeda attack on U.S. soil in early 2001 were ignored, got hired as the WTC chief of security three weeks before 9/11 and was killed in the attack.
x6O9o TIL The Isles of Scilly, located 45km off the coast of mainland UK, is home to the world's smallest football league. There are only two teams who play each other every Sunday. They also take part in the Lyonesse Cup, where the winner is awarded a 6mm tall cup named the "World's Smallest Cup".
ZpKxQ TIL David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the UK during WW1, didn't support appeasement because he disliked Neville Chamberlain
QJ59L TIL Liechtenstein, a country that has one of the highest gross domestic products per person in the world when adjusted for purchasing power parity, has no army because it was deemed too costly.
mx8gM TIL that blackjack basic strategy (the optimal strategy for winning) was developed by four US army engineers, who called themselves the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. In 2008 they were inducted into the Blackjack Hall of Fame.