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TIL: Bhutan have banned the sales of pesticides and are set to become the world’s first organic country.

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KoJB TIL A retired teacher who had been struggling for breath for months was amazed when doctors told him there was a PEA plant growing in his lung.
neJDB TIL that Boko Haram caused the disappearance of as many as 10,000 boys before he kidnapped the 300 girls that elicited global sympathy
AD7n TIL today is National Cheese Pizza Day
eOxb TIL that “Raven, a 6 year old chimpanzee, became the 22nd most successful money manager in the USA by throwing darts at a list of internet companies. Raven created her own index, dubbed MonkeyDex, and in 1999 delivered a 213% gain, outperforming more than 6,000 professional brokers on Wall Street.”
4kkvX TIL that 10 million people (1/4 of USA population!!) physically attended the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 1876 (see link, Yale Univ. Professor Blight, at time 6:00 in video)