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TIL Sweden is so good at recycling, it has run out of garbage and now must import garbage from Norway to fuel its energy programs

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P1evL TIL that although it is absent in mammals, the photoreceptive parietal eye--quite literally a third eye--was present in their closest extinct relatives, the therapsids
w5wE TIL In the United States it is legal for an average citizen to wear body armor unless you were convicted of a violent felony.
KOlrw TIL President Roosevelt's dog, Fala, was so popular that American soldiers would ask one another for the name of the dog in order to prove they weren't a German spy
Wk68d TIL that Osama Bin Laden had a Steam account, Batman Gotham Knight and FF7 among many other such items
VBkwk TIL When General Patrick Cleburne passed St. John's Episcopal Church, he commented that "it would be worth dying to be buried in a place so beautiful." Two days later he was killed in battle, and his body was laid to rest in the churchyard of St. John's Episcopal Church.