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

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KY65B TIL Perfect environment created for wild pandas has made them too comfortable to feel the urge to breed
jNAaQ TIL that Steve Carter, 35, found out he was a missing child. Carter, who was adopted at 4, found an age-progression image through missing children. He discovered he'd been kidnapped by his birth mother and placed in an orphanage. His biological father reported him missing over three decades earlier.
DXrv TIL: Cars with gull wing or scissor doors often have explosive bolts on the door hinges that fire if the car rolls over, allowing occupants to escape.
VMN70 TIL about Phocion, an Athenian statesman who was so humble and frugal that he was known simply as "The Good", was elected a record 45 times as Strategos (head of the military) and singlehandedly convinced Alexander the Great to spare Athens and focus on war with Persia instead.
7doX TIL in the Japanese version of Lotus 123 the audible error “beep” was removed because it would be very shameful for the computer to tell everybody that you made a mistake.