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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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woPdM TIL by April 2023, 70% of jobs for Chinese video game illustrators had been eliminated by AI
G7DJ TIL The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries
1alLV TIL that Alexander of Greece (Greece's 4th King) died aged 27 after a mob of monkeys attacked and bit him as he was trying to break a fight between one of the palace monkeys and his German Shepherd dog.
NAJP TIL when asked what his inspiration was for the Funkadelic album “Free Your Mind…and Your Ass Will Follow”, George Clinton said it was an attempt to “see if we can cut a whole album while we’re all tripping on acid.”
BrdZW TIL that the US has technically been a metric nation since 1975 but just hasn't enforced the system onto private companies and people.