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TIL that the Kingdom of Bhutan, a small landlocked country in the Himalayas, does not recognize or have any formal diplomatic relations with the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council as a measure to keep them out of global affairs.

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WkNEd TIL of Bob Fletcher: he took care of the farms of three Japanese-American families as they were interned in World War 2. By maintaining their farms and paying their taxes and mortgages, he ensured the families didn't lose everything. He was finally shot at for supporting these families.
0w40R TIL that NASA is planning to send another manned mission, Artemis 3, to land on the lunar surface in 2024. This mission will see not only the next man to step foot on the moon, but the first woman.
OoBJL TIL that when parents view failure as debilitating and focus on their children’s performance rather on learning, their children tend to believe that intelligence is a fixed characteristic, rather than something malleable that they can improve.
kO0Em TIL of Heinz Heydrich. Brother of Reinhard Heydrich who was a key architect of the Holocaust. When Heinz learned of the Final Solution he helped many Jews escape their certain deaths by forging identity papers.
ZBYQ TIL that DC Comics’ original candidate for its first headlining black superhero was the Black Bomber, a white racist who would turn into a black superhero under stress. Comics historian Don Markstein called it “an insult to practically everybody with any point of view at all.”