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TIL the Amazon has an estimated 400 Billion Trees!

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G8pj TIL that Socrates complained about the technology of writing. He said it would “create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories.”
5YMQ8 TIL The first computers in the White House were installed by Jimmy Carter's administration. In 1978, the West Wing was equipped with a Hewlett Packard 3000. By the end of Carter's term, the White House had purchased its first laser printer
QZKX TIL Food Served at the 2014 National Food Safety Conference caused over 100 Suspected Cases of Food Poisoning
v1vOx TIL an Oscar Award give to Margaret O'Brien was stolen by her housekeeper and never recovered. Years later, two men at a flea auction paid $500 for it and returned it to her.
JY15v TIL that Granny Smiths, Fujis, and Pink Ladies can all be traced back to Almaty, Kazakhstan, where the ancestor apples still grow wild there in the Tian Shan mountains.