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TIL that a town in China produces 60% of all the xmas decorations in the world

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v1MVr TIL Reinhold Messner the first climber to ascend all fourteen peaks over 8,000 metres above sea level. And the first ascent of Everest without supplemental oxygen.
P7EZ TIL Skype was developed by the same Estonian programmers who created Kazaa.
jNVka TIL scientists discovered a perfectly preserved feathered dinosaur tail in a polished piece of Amber, after the jewellery seller initially thought it was just "plant material"
N79RM Today I learned the Alligator Gar is the largest of the gar species and named after the American alligator. It can grow up to 10 feet long. Alligator gar have the ability to breath water as well as air. Their fossil record traces back to 100 million years which was the cretaceous period.
Vrvk TIL that the Nazi’s were staunch animal rights activists with major efforts to limit hunting and general animal cruelty. Göring, in particular, was a professed animal lover who proclaimed bans on both vivisection(Nazi Germany was the first country in the world to do so) and the shoeing of horses.