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TIL A 14 August 1912 article from a New Zealand newspaper contained a brief story about how burning coal might produce future warming by adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

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Wkm6X TIL of a term 'Revenge Bedtime Procrastination' which is "a phenomenon in which people who don’t have much control over their daytime life refuse to go to sleep early in order to regain some sense of freedom during late night hours."
ne4oW TIL, Till Lindemann the lead singer of Rammstein was shortlisted to go to 1980 Olympics in Moscow for freestyle swimming.
pDb4 TIL In 1971, Congress passed the Comprehensive Child Development Bill, which was then vetoed by Richard Nixon. The bill would have created a multi-billion dollar national day care system designed partially to make it easier for single parents to work and care for children simultaneously.
x68L5 TIL about Garibaldi, an Italian general who led 1,000 volunteers in the unification of Italy, outnumbered 90 to 1 and commanding just a few stolen tugboats, he managed to land in Sicily, incite the people there to revolt and ultimately destroyed the state of Two Sicilies in less than 2 years.
QNMap TIL Slovenia has more major governmental subdivisions (201) than there are nations in the U.N. (195), and that Serbia, Uganda, Latvia and Philippines also have over 100 subdivisions