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TIL On May 3, 2008 Estonian activists organized themselves as an ad hoc community to clean up the country's 10,000 tons of waste in a single day

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XEoB6 TIL John Hathorne was the only judge in the Salem Witch Trials never to apologize for his actions. His great-great grandson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, added a W to his last name to distance himself from him.