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TIL that the average carbon footprint of a homeless person in the USA is bigger than that of the average Kyoto resident.

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oBN9K TIL when Hiroshima was bombed, Tokyo's first indication that Hiroshima was destroyed by a new kind of bomb came 16 hours after the strike and originally thought reports of an explosion was just a rumour.
d60B TIL Al Sharpton led the public civil rights involvement of a rape case of Tawana Brawley in which 6 whites (including police officers) were accused of raping the young girl and putting her in a trash bag covered in feces. The jury later found the defendants innocent and the story fabricated.
GAvRN TIL there is a Worlds Ugliest Dog competion that has been held at the Sonoma-Marin fair in North CA since the 1970s
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