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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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Ee6w TIL Alex the Grey Parrot had a vocabulary of over 100 words and could distinguish seven colors and five shapes. He once asked what color he was, making him the first and only non-human animal to ever ask an existential question.
4k6WX TIL David Bowie used to travel around in New York carrying a Greek newspaper in the belief that people would assume he was just a Greek man who looked like David Bowie and leave him alone.
4X6og TIL that in the Original Nintendo Games that Mario's Hat was created due to the graphical limitations of arcade hardware since hair couldn't be represented well.
XEW0Q TIL cows are the cause of 20 times more deaths than sharks. Whenever a cow gets scared they will charge and attack, considering they are over 1000 pounds death due to a cow charge is highly plausible. Sharks usually only kill humans when they mistake them for some other source of food like a turtle.
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