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TIL: Of a fire that has been burning continuously in Rainham, UK for 10 years exposing residents to toxic fumes

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x6V8o TIL Abraham Lincoln was a dual citizen of the United States and the tiny country of San Marino. He accepted honorary Sammarinese citizenship after recognizing them as a nation, saying “Although your dominion is small, your State is nevertheless one of the most honored, in all history."
xWbk TIL Sand is a non-renewable resource and the world is running out of it. The construction industry alone uses billions of tonnes of it every year
Me6k0 TIL that many starving children in developing nations appear bloated with swollen bellies due to a condition called kwashiorkor, an illness related to malnutrition caused by a lack of protein resulting in an osmotic imbalance where the cells hold onto too much water.
69vDW TIL an estimated 121K people in England died in 2022 awaiting treatment. That’s a death rate of 220 per 100K. Other estimates put that number even higher at 340K, or a rate of 618 per 100K.
POVZ TIL the readers of Rolling Stone magazine named Nickelback the second worst band of the 1990s… behind only Creed