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TIL that London has so many trees that it can be classified as a forest

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Oo1pL TIL Leonard Nimoy made a song about Bilbo Baggins, the bravest little Hobbit of them all.
wo0Eo TIL James Cameron has long had a fascination with shipwrecks & Titanic was "the Mt Everest of shipwrecks." After an IMAX film used footage of the Titanic wreck, he then sought Hollywood funding for his own dive. "not because I particularly wanted to make the film" "I wanted to dive to the shipwreck"
vaDK TIL that a person who deals with and persists through difficulty or hardship without complaint is a trouper, not a trooper
pYrNN TIL When a star like our Sun dies, it doesn’t explode into a supernova or collapse into a black hole. Instead, it gently sheds its outer layers, which form a beautiful cloud called a “planetary nebula”, while the dying star’s core becomes a white dwarf.
5Y4Wp TIL that in September 1985 John Denver, Dee Snider, and Frank Zappa testified before a US Senate committee in opposition to warning labels on records notifying consumers of explicit lyrical content involving sex and violence.