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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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W77JL TIL There are 6 different communities across Tennessee called Shiloh, Tennessee.
Edaw TIL The University of Tokyo is developing a tactile hologram system. In other words, they are creating a hologram that you can touch and feel.
XERJP TIL the U.S banned books and films about Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in Japan as well as all satirical cartoons of General MacArthur.
XgKR TIL that Elephants are one of the only other creatures with a nervous system advanced enough to allow them to feel empathy. They are also one of the only creatures to suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
1847 TIL Two baby girls were switched at birth in 1931 at the Leiden University Medical Center. Suspicions didn’t rise until two decades later, when the girls met at a wedding and wondered at their mutual likeness to each other’s family.