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TIL about the Great Green Wall — a UN project to stop the Sahara from expanding south

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nyRP TIL That modern tortoises’ ancestors moved out of the sea (fish to land reptiles), then back to the sea (early turtles), then back to the land again as tortoises.
wn9Y TIL California paid $1M towards the extermination of Native American tribes. Later, CA paid a bounty of $5 a head for any Native.
J1blQ TIL Ringo Starr and John Lennon tried to move to Texas as teenagers
ZkBv TIL that Indian Casinos came about because a Native American couple, Russell and Helen Bryan, living on a reservation fought property tax all the way up to the Supreme Court therefore establishing precedent that the US government cannot regulate Indian affairs on reservations.
loWVV TIL: Squirrels (unlike most other mammals) can survive impacts at their terminal velocity. Which means no matter what height you drop a squirrel from, it will probably survive.