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TIL Russia is warming 2.5 times faster than the rest of the globe, because Soviet Officials felt that pollution control was an unnecessary hindrance to economic development and industrialization.

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x6V0k TIL mathematician Kurt Godel starved himself to death for fear of being poisoned
MeZWb TIL that caterpillars digest their entire body into a soupy liquid in their cocoon before regenerating into a butterfly from the few remaining cells.
BKjr TIL Rory McCann (The Hound from Game of Thrones) once fell 70 ft while rock climbing without a rope and broke both of his ankles, an arm, and a wrist, as well as fracturing his skull. He went on to play a man left paraplegic after a climbing accident in one of his earliest roles.
wLnw6 TIL of the Texas City Disaster, the deadliest industrial accident in United States history. The explosion, caused by a ship full of ammonium nitrate catching fire, was so large that the ship's anchor serves as a memorial to the explosion where it landed... a mile and a half inland.
Ooj64 TIL about the 1904 Olympics marathon. Due to poor organisation, dehydration, food poisoning, wild dogs, drugs, and dust clouds out of the 32 original contestants, only 14 completed the race. A passing postman managed to come in 4th place