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TIL slash and burn practices in Indonesia have essentially turned the whole country into a perpetual forest fire, causing widespread pollution problems across all of Southeast Asia every year in the dry season.

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GY81 TIL that there is a website where you can map the fallout of a nuclear bomb anywhere in the world.
W76J8 TIL that human's brains are inherently wired to put more focus on the negative than the positive in what Psychologists refer to as "negativity bias."
x7vw TIL FEMA has been using Waffle Houses as unofficial indicators of disaster recovery in recent years. The chains are conveniently located across the hurricane zones of the US, usually operate 24 hours a day and have exceptional disaster preparedness that lets them open back up quickly after a storm.
kJLLE TIL Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day (December 25th) in England in 1642. However, a baby born on the same day in France would have a January 4th birthday because there were two competing calendars at the time.
jNaGp TIL that the sounds we hear in nature documentaries,including popular ones like Planet Earth II,are almost always created by Foley artists in studios with commonplace objects.Eg.Magnetic film tape are used to create the sound of a spider walking and a slinky to make the web shooting sounds.