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TIL that South Korea planted over 350 million trees in a massive reforestation program starting at the end of World War Two.

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9LkD TIL in 2003, a man with a warrant for his arrest was caught on a “Kiss Cam” when his parole officer happened to be at the Cincinnati Reds game too
7rdEr TIL about the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, built on the site of "S-21," one of at least 150 torture and execution centers established by the Khmer Rouge. Of the estimated 20,000 people who were imprisoned at Tuol Sleng, there are only twelve known survivors.
PYgpJ TIL that Leonardo da Vinci would buy animals at the market just to set them free, in the name of animal rights.
oB4OL TIL: in the late 1960s, US plane hijacking had become so commonplace, specifically requests to be down to Cuba, but the industry so resistant to security changes, that a suggestion was seriously proposed to build a fake Havana airport in southern Florida to fool the hijackers into capitulation
wxmP TIL Sean Connery turned down the Gandalf role in Lord of the Rings. “I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don’t understand it.”