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6EP6J TIL The Hopi Reservation does not observe daylight savings time, but it is completely surrounded by the Navajo Reservation which does observe daylight savings time. The Navajo reservation is in Arizona which does not observe daylight savings.
MekB8 TIL in biblical Israel, on Yom Kippur two goats were chosen and lots were drawn for them. One was sacrificed and the other allowed to escape into the wilderness, symbolically carrying with it the sins of the community. Hence the word "scapegoat".
WOvd TIL an Indian man named Jadav Payeng started planting trees on a barren sandbar at 17. He is now 47 and lives in his own 1360 acre forest which now houses rhinos, tigers, deers, apes and elephants.
QN459 TIL: You can Grow a Black Diamond from a Dogs Ashes
rR4j0 TIL that “Don’t Mess with Texas” began as an anti-littering campaign