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TIL that Palm oil producers are wiping out orangutans – despite multinationals’ promises

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4kXJJ TIL the closest relatives of cetaceans (whales) are hippopotamuses
W6Ko TIL that Colorado and Washington are the two least religious states in the country.
d8B5Z TIL about "Operation Condor" a clandestine CIA project destined to orchestrate coups all over LatinAmerica between '68-'89, that contributed to the political instability and developmental delay that we still see today.
pbre TIL that in Dutch Harbor, Alaska there are helmets and hockey sticks left outside the post office so that customers can protect themselves from aggressive bald eagles.
gME58 TIL Iran's Queen Tadj ol-Molouk played an important part in the abolition of the veil in Iran during the reign of her husband. She was the first Iranian Queen to show herself in public when she attended a gradation ceremony in modern clothes with her two daughters, without veils