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TIL the Amazon has an estimated 400 Billion Trees!

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4Xo6b TIL bears purr, similar to cats, when they are happy and comfortable.
DEAY TIL that Indian spacecraft Mangalyaan’s journey from Earth to Mars took 6 months, which is less than Christopher Columbus’ first journey from Europe to America (8 months)
RXd9 TIL Cuba has an illegal underground network of computers mimicking the internet essentially making it the worlds largest LAN party
nWjk7 TIL that people who attempted suicide are seven times more likely to die of heart disease before age 40
VBgAm TIL one of the first things ever sold online was pizza. PizzaNet, owned and operated by Pizza Hut, was created in 1994 and serviced Santa Cruz, California. It was one of the first few thousand on the web. The site is still running today.