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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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BgZ1e TIL a pop up restaurant in Japan hired only elderly people with dementia to reduce the stigma attached to it. The customers still ate the food they were served even if the waiters got it wrong.
yQ118 TIL that within the United States, each state, territory and federal district sets the marriage age in its jurisdiction. As of January 2022 in nine states there is no statutory minimum age when all exemptions were taken into account. Between 2000 and 2018, nearly 300,000 minors were legally married.
78y6p TIL Inspired by her father’s inability to read and write Dolly Parton started her Imagination Library in 1995 for the children within her home county. Today, her program spans five countries and gifts over 2 million free books each month to children around the world.
9VkM TIL:The U. S. Army secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the ocean, in at least 26 locations off both coasts - The Army can’t say exactly where all the weapons were dumped because records are sketchy, missing or were destroyed. “It’s a disaster looming — a time bomb”
8e8b4 TIL in 1997, Amy Tobey, an employee in charge of ball-park music at Fenway Park, played ‘Sweet Caroline’ during a Boston Red Sox game because someone she knew just had a baby named Caroline. It caught on with fans, and now many teams from different sports leagues play the song during home games.