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TIL There are fossils of marine life found on top of Himalayan mountains.

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ANl07 TIL Dogs can learn about 250 words or gestures. This puts them at about the same place as a two-year-old human child.
5dPp TIL Frank Zappa was invited to perform in Live Aid concert (to raise funds for relief of the Ethiopian famine) but he refused, calling the event “the biggest cocaine money laundering scheme of all time.”
R5ZA8 TIL there is a rainforest in Alaska
pbkA TIL Over 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci made an interesting observation about trees. He concluded that the total thickness of a tree’s branches is equal to the total thickness of the tree trunk. Trees across many species obey this rule. Explanations involve hydrological and structural theories.
oBEQK TIL that before buses were introduced, school students in rural areas of New Zealand traveled up to 18 miles to school on horseback and stored their horse at school