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TIL Ecuador are going to sell a third of its Amazon rainforest to Chinese oil companies.

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RMl4 TIL The Philippines is one of the deadliest places in the world for politicians, with over 1200 political assassinations in the last decade.
W7elX TIL Cap'n Crunch's real name is Horatio Magellan Crunch
D1bVe TIL About Joginder Singh, an Indian soldier who single-handedly killed 56 people in one battle with a bayonet.
DGBv TIL Under the Soviet Union, the distribution of Beatles albums was forbidden by the government, so some medical students would burn Beatles songs onto old X-rays.
d8dxK TIL the Eagle lunar ascent stage from Apollo 11 may still be orbiting the Moon.