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TIL the Paris Agreement “provides no consequences if countries do not meet their commitments” and “there will be only a ‘name and shame’ system”

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Rnbw TIL an American college student disappeared during spring break in Mexico, only to have his body found in a drug running cult’s ranch with his brain in a cauldron.
8BOG TIL that turkeys do something called a “shock gobble” where they automatically have to belt out a gobble to any loud sound, whether it’s another turkey or a car door slamming, to sound like they’re the biggest critter around. TIL that turkeys are stupid.
jNAwN TIL Writer Boris Vian was so upset with the producers that adapted his most famous book on screen he collapsed from cardiac arrest and died while attending the movie premiere, cursing the executives with his last words
OoMo6 TIL the sunscreen rating SPF 15 means 1/15th of the UV-B radiation is not blocked. SPF 30 means 1/30th, etc.
4k8m5 TIL that Poppy flowers became associated with the military after a Canadian poet was inspired by a field of poppies near a mass grave in Belgium folliwing World War 1. The poppies grew there after the bombing and trench warfare churned up the soil, exposing dormant poppy seeds to the sunlight.