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TIL of The Smokey Bear effect which was an indirect result of the Smokey Bear campaign. The Smokey Bear campaign has been so successful at preventing forest fires that it has allowed trees and debris to pile up on the forest floor, indirectly resulting in forest fires that burn larger and hotter.

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Llyv TIL Karl Urban’s character in the 2012 film “Dredd” was legally required to never remove his helmet and to keep his face obscured. Urban had no issue with this as “if you’d grown up reading Dredd, you’d never really consider taking the helmet off.”
oBrJY TIL that atrazine, the most commonly detected pesticide contaminating drinking water in the United States, has been tentatively shown to turn male frogs sterile and, in about 10% of cases, into females.
KY644 TIL there were Buffalo Soldiers who were Freemasons
wgm1 TIL a man kayaked from Germany to Australia between 1932-1939 only to arrive and be detained as a POW due to the outbreak of WW2
d8lrK TIL after the Bulldozer Revolution in Serbia, the resistance set up a course in non-violent protest