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TIL Ethiopia planted 350 million trees in less than one day
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TIL in 1949 Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108 near Sault-au-Cochon, Quebec, crashed killing all 23 aboard following the explosion of a time bomb. Albert Guay wanted to kill his wife and get her life insurance policy ($10,000), and marry another woman.
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TIL upon sending his son, who worried about his ability to hold his own amid experienced and eminent statesmen and diplomats, to the negotiation that would lead to the Peace of Westphalia, a Swedish statesman famously told him:"Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?"
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TIL that Harry Burn, a young state rep, cast Tennessee's deciding vote to ratify the 19th Amendment regarding women's suffrage after he got a letter from his mother reminding him to "be a good boy." The amendment cld not become law without ratification by a min. of 36 states. Tennessee was the 36th.
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TIL Gibraltar forgot it was a city for 180 years. In 2022 it applied to gain city status, lost the bid, but became a city anyway after reaeachers discovered Queen Victoria had granted it that status 180 years ago.
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TIL in 2001 Pizza Hut paid the Russian space agency to send a pizza to the International Space Station at the cost of $1 million