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TIL Norway has very strict rules on advertising cars as “green” - saying “cars can do nothing good for the environment except less damage than others”

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kNwW TIL: The Canadian RCMP systematically slaughtered the sled dogs of the Inuit until as late as the 1970s
X00VQ TIL During the 1960s American banks mass mailed 100 million unsolicited credit cards to customers including unemployable people, drug addicts and compulsive debtors. This practice was outlawed in 1970 due to the financial chaos it caused.
nDEY TIL a dog in Spain waited for his master outside a hospital for 12 years, unaware that his master had died.
1mjP TIL Stephen King sells the rights to some of his short stories for $1 so that film students can use them to make movies. He calls them his ‘Dollar Babies.’
dDZnB TIL famed physicist Richard Feynman donated "93 boxes" of papers and writings to Caltech, which has never digitized any of it and will only provide access physically in the reading room of the Caltech Archives to qualified researchers. Caltech holds no copyright on the work.