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TIL that Cuba is the only country in the world that meets WWF conditions of sustainable development, for both the Human Development Index and Ecological Footprint

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lR85 TIL Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw is the only person to ever win both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar.
p8ZXb TIL Mongolian barbecue is not Mongolian - it was invented by a Taiwanese comedian/restaurateur.
pb04 TIL Physicists like using 2000 year old ancient Roman lead in their experiments and this is pissing off archaeologists
Rvo8 TIL After WWII Japanese were tried, convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding.
9Yga7 TIL a majority of indigenous mainland Americans prefer the terms "Indian" and "American Indian" to "Native American". Many tribes include Indian in their formal titles.