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TIL the first scientist to show that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would increase global temperatures was Eunice Foote

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1aOgd TIL lions love to play with discarded Christmas trees, and have an effect similar to catnip on cats.
E1R5d TIL Despite being a devout Christian, Chuck Norris has an illegitimate daughter from an affair during his first marriage and he didn't meet her until she was 26 years old.
OGB4R TIL the house where Bo Burnham lived until 2021 and filmed his special Inside is the famous Elm Street house.
Z8KK4 TIL, in 1969, police raided George Harrison's house and arrested him when they claimed to have found a large piece of hashish in one of Harrison’s shoes. Harrison proclaimed his innocence, saying, "I’m a tidy man. I keep my socks in the sock drawer and stash in the stash box. It’s not mine."
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