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Til that the loss of earthworm species during the last ice age left northern woodlands in the USA to successfully adapt to conditions without them, making the ones we see today invasive species that can actually destroy forest floors more than help them.

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16aWr TIL about the island of Maui Nui or Greater Maui, which included the present day islands of Maui, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, and Kahoʻolawe. All except Kahoʻolawe were a single island even during the last glacial maximum (~20000 years ago).
E11rP TIL that North Korea has only 724 km of paved roads, one-fourth of tiny Luxembourg which has 2,899 km
5av9 TIL CNN’s Wolf Blitzer appeared on Jeopardy! and ended up with a final score of negative 4600.
oRAJW TIL that ancient numeral systems like Egyptian hieratic, Greek, Hebrew, Roman, Chinese, and early Indian Brahmi were all non-positional decimal systems, requiring large numbers of symbols. The world’s earliest positional decimal system was the Chinese rod calculus.
Me597 TIL there's a species of freshwater seal and they exist only around one lake in Russia.