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TIL that Bhutan is the only Carbon negative country in the world.

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0wMML TIL that Dred Scott and William Tecumseh Sherman are buried in the same cemetery located in St. Louis, Missouri.
GAeWg TIL about the Great British Dog and Cat Massacre of 1939. In which Londoners, to prepare for war with Nazi Germany, voluntarily killed over 400,000 of their home pets in a one month period so as to ease the strain on resources.
QQvk TIL Girls can hear higher frequencies than boys and are more sensitive to sounds
0DA TIL that whereas in 1970 18% of the boys aged 16 and 17 reported to have had at least one same-sex sexual experience, the number had dropped to 2% by 1990.
kBBW TIL that by some estimates, there is over 70 million years’ worth of salt 1,200 feet beneath the city of Detroit.