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v1lW7 TIL A group of students in Iran spent years reconstructing thousands of shredded CIA secret documents, and subsequently published them
K7R TIL 1 acre of hemp can produce as much paper as 4 acres of trees, be recycled more often, and lasts centuries longer.
dDX8r TIL the Irish tenor Ronan Tynan, known in the U.S. for "God Bless America," is a double amputee who competed in track and field and equestrian at the 1984 and 1988 Paralympics, winning four gold medals. He's also a medical doctor specializing in orthopedics.
R7yO7 TIL that in the German concentration camp Sachsenhausen prisoners were forced to run marathons all day long to test shoes for the army and private shoe manufacturers. Those who stopped running due to exhaustion were shot.
AR87 TIL The United States is the most armed nation with 88.8 guns per 100 people.