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TIL the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT) is an environmental movement that calls for all people to abstain from reproduction in order to cause the gradual voluntary extinction of humankind.

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X0DD8 TIL that the common understanding of nuclear winter causing mass starvation or even extinction has little scientific support, but scientists have purposefully avoided correcting it out of fear of being perceived as pro-nuclear armament.
b9yXa TIL that the community of Puʻuwai, Hawaii and the entire island it is located on, is off limits to anyone except residents and official visitors. Tourists are not allowed.
J1DxB TIL that forty years passed from the date of Jesus' crucifixion before any written account of his life and teachings was put to paper.
m1NNp TIL Donald Mastick accidentally tasted Plutonium and was banned from lab work. Despite this, he earned a physics PhD, started a highly successful interior landscape company, raised a family, and died of natural causes, all with few micrograms of Plutonium in his body.
4R1g TIL that Americans spend around $30 billion in lawn care, annually.