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TIL about Julia Butterfly Hill, and American environmental activist who lived in a giant redwood tree for 738 days to stop it from being cut down by a logging company

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XWe6 TIL: In 1989, the Soviet Union traded Pepsi Company 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate, and a destroyer for Pepsi to be sold in the Soviet Union. This trade made Pepsi the 6th largest military power in the world at the time.
R519 TIL in Japan, it is so common for people to die alone undiscovered for long periods, that they have a term for it, “Kodokushi”. “Their bodies lie in places undiscovered for long periods of time, and because of this, thick, dark stains shaped like a human body are left where their bodies once lay.”
1KVW TIL that a former President of Equatorial Guinea celebrated the Christmas of 1975 by having 150 of his opponents executed in a soccer stadium by soldiers dressed as Santa Claus.
VMPB TIL That orange juice tastes bad after brushing your teeth due to Sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) the foaming agent in toothpaste.
x6JWB TIL about Garoé, a tree of unknown species, revered by the ancient Bimbache Indians on the island of El Hierro in the Canary Islands, which was said to have the power to generate rain and provide water like a fountain. was the only way these people could get water.