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TIL - what it’s like behind the scenes of the UK’s largest timber importer and processor. With over 90acres of land, the site has more than 70,000 m3 of timber on site.

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P1lKw TIL that although the Everest is the mountain with the most dead mountaineers, it isn't considered as deadly as other mountains, with a higher fatality rate
P1WGe TIL of the estimated 20 million tons of gold in the oceans, worth $700 Trillion. All the gold humans ever mined is 208,874 tons.
8alVa TIL the sharpest object every made is a tungsten needle, which tapers down to the tip being about the size of an atom.
77Jx TIL that laundry was for 50 years often mailed. Until the 1960s, many US college students mailed dirty clothes home for moms to wash and mail back (often including food), using reusable boxes and USPS parcel post. Modern washing machines that made washing clothes locally easier ended laundry mail.
KYgBB TIL that performance artist Chris Burden shot a pistol at a 747 in 1973. In 1971 he had a friend shoot him in the arm with a .22 rifle.