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Today I learned Australia has re-started industrial logging old growth forests in bush fire affected areas

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9Y8Q6 TIL that in 1856 a school master, after warning his students not to harm his tamed sparrow, strangled a student after class because the student stepped on it. School master was later shot dead by the student's father
ovlE TIL that the real Woody Doll’s voice from Toy Story is not Tom Hanks, but it’s his brother’s voice.
16nNP TIL that there is a dialect of Welsh spoken exclusively in Southern Argentina.
epevk TIL that imitating is the best way of flattering someone
Z8KVp TIL of Solar Storm of 2012. It was an event on July 23 that produced a solar outburst that was comparable to the Solar Storm of 1859, which destroyed all electrical equipment. However, this solar outburst narrowly missed Earth by 9 days; it would have cost an estimated $2.6 trillion in damages.