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TIL that Captain Planet, a TV show from the 90s about environmentalism, required that their merchandise be sustainably produced and created a foundation to empower the youth working on environmental projects that still exists today.

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VWVB TIL the “Battle of B-R5RB”. It was an epic digital battle in EVE online and it costed $300,000 in real world money.It began when someone forgot to pay an in-game rent for an in-game space station.
M7yN0 TIL that there is a company converting (rebuilding?) DC-3s to turboprops
WkkK9 One intrepid Popular Science editor eschews antiperspirant for a week to see if Deo candy really works.
nEQd TIL a journalist suffered a massive stroke,woke up 20 days later paralyzed,had one eye stitched closed,lost 27 Kgs over 5 months, wrote a book by blinking his left eyelid for ten months four hrs a day, died suddenly 10 days after the book released to excellent reviews,and later a highly rated movie
XLwE TIL of Richard Jewell who became a national hero for saving hundreds of lives when he spotted a bomb at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, only to be wrongly accused of the crime 3 days later