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TIL that Canada still has 91% of the forest cover that it had at the beginning of European settlement

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KYZnw TIL that Gov George Wallace of Alabama’s wife had cancer, but she didn’t know because he didn’t tell her. Doctors back then only told the husband.
VM4l4 TIL In 2005, 60 years after the end of World War 2 and Korea's Independence, South Korea passed a law to seize land held by Pro-Japan collaborators and redistribute them to people who fought for the country's Independence.
Y7m9r TIL of Goodhart's law which states "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" due to people gaming the outcome.
neYEW TIL: 19th century investor, Jay Gould, mastered short selling stocks by selling borrowed stocks and then publishing negative rumors about the company he borrowed them from in a newspaper he owned so he could buy the stocks back at a profit.
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