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TIL there’s a website where you can see the progress of removing the Costa Concordia

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a0bM TIL Tolkein called Bilbo Baggins’s home “Bag End” to make fun of the French “cul-de-sac” used in English.
b6em7 TIL Tupac’s Thug Life tattoo is an acronym that stands for The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody
6MB7 TIL that no one, including an expert Belgian botanist, could find a method of pollination of vanilla to make it viable for cultivation outside of South America… until a 12-year-old slave named Edmond Albius discovered it could be hand-pollinated. This led to the global cultivation of the plant.
Me1Em TIL Norway has a sovereign wealth fund to the value of over $1 Trillion USD which includes 1.3% of global stocks and shares, it is primarily funded by the profits of the Norwegian petroleum sector. In total the fund has a value of over $180,000 per Norwegian resident.
ADbP7 TIL Iceland was extensively forested before the first humans settled there. But within 500 years of their arrival 95% of woodlands had been cut down, leading to soil erosion, crop failure and the eventual abandonment of many farms.