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TIL that gold miners in Peru are clear-cutting forests, washing down the soil with high pressure hoses and putting mercury on the slurry to mine gold, ruining everything they touch.

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JYAKk TIL that in 1942 the song "Deep in the Heart of Texas" was banned by BBC during working hours on the grounds that its infectious melody might cause wartime factory-hands to neglect their tools while they clapped in time with the song.
woJME TIL that child pornography was legal in Denmark between 1969-1979
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QyZX TIL In many Nordic cities, parents leave their children unattended in buggies in town, for long periods of time, while they have coffee or go shopping.