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• [Environment fact 1] Several high school friends formed the Committee to End Pay Toilets in America (CEPTIA) in 1968, which eventually led to laws banning pay toilets in several states.

  Environment, Lawsource

• [Environment fact 2] Out of the 9 billion tons of plastic, humans have created throughout history, half of it has been in the past 13 years.

  Environment, Peoplesource

• [Environment fact 3] In 2017, a company in India dumping illegally waste into the Mumbai's Kasadi River was caught when the waste was making the local stray dogs turn blue.

  Animals, Environmentsource

• [Environment fact 4] All the 360 kgs of lunar soil samples brought back from the Apollo missions have now rusted after corroding their vacuum bottle seals and being exposed to water and oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.

  Environment, Spacesource

• [Environment fact 5] The destruction under Genghis Khan may have scrubbed as much as 700 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere by allowing forests to regrow on previously populated and cultivated land.

  Environment, Forestsource

• [Environment fact 6] The Oh-My-God Particle was a proton traveling at about 99.99999999999999999999951% the speed of light. It is the fastest moving object ever recorded and as it hit the atmosphere it carried the kinetic energy equivalent to a baseball traveling at 50MPH, all in one particle.

  Environment, Sciencesource

• [Environment fact 7] Pollster and media strategist Frank Luntz wrote a paper on how to effectively wage war on environmental science. After big gains by environmentalists in the 1970s, corporate interests colluded to fight back using propaganda techniques (front groups, public relations, think tanks, etc). Into the 90s their big battle was against the science of global warming, and Luntz basically wrote the playbook for how to deny, obfuscate, spin, and reframe the debate.

  Corporation, Environmentsource

• [Environment fact 8] A 25-year old man named Ramveer Tanwar in India has up until 2019 revived 12 dead lakes in India to fight off water scarcity.

  Environment, Peoplesource

• [Environment fact 9] Companies are known to strategically place facilities where the wind will carry pollution across the state line or sometimes even country lines.

  Environment, Placessource

• [Environment fact 10] Electricity generated in Switzerland is 56% from hydroelectricity and 39% from nuclear power, resulting in a nearly CO2 free electricity-generating network.

  Environment, Placessource

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