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TIL 85% of wildfires in the United States are caused by humans

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axLN TIL that a bowl of PF Chang’s hot and sour soup contains 7980mg of sodium. Nearly three and a half days worth of the recommended daily allowance.
ZpjWv TIL Martha Gellhorn, wife of Ernest Hemingway, impersonated a medic to go ashore without permission on D-Day. She was the only woman to report from the landing beaches.
v15vK TIL Sarcasm is illegal in North-Korea, especially if the intent is to criticize the government.
p8yJQ TIL that a micromort is a unit of risk defined as one-in-a-million chance of death. Micromorts can be used to measure riskiness of various day-to-day activities
4Xaxo TIL that some people with anxiety may actively resist relaxation in favor of worrying, with a study suggesting that it's a way to avoid a large jump in anxiety if something bad really does happen.