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TIL that air pollution in China increases snowfall in California.

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kJ7A7 TIL about Julia Butterfly Hill, and American environmental activist who lived in a giant redwood tree for 738 days to stop it from being cut down by a logging company
ANb0w TIL that, according to his daughter, in 1996 Reuben Mattus sat at his kitchen table for hours saying nonsensical Danish-sounding words until he came up with his brand name, Häagen-Dazs
41Qw TIL in 1916, a town in Tennessee hanged an elephant by its neck after it killed a trainer during a parade
p6bb TIL Brain Training games don’t make you any smarter.
Brpjr TIL there was a black samurai who served under the daimyō Oda Nobunaga who praised him for his strength and was given his own residence and a short, ceremonial katana by Nobunaga. When they first met, Nobunaga suspected his skin was covered in ink and had his skin scrubbed.