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TIL: It’s estimated 98% of the rain forest in Indonesia and Malaysia will be destroyed by 2022, with much of the blame on palm oil farming

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eXgJ TIL that an encrypted note sent on June 6, 1944 was found attached to a pigeon skeleton in 2012. The message has not been deciphered.
YgOG TIL that the bodyguard Walter H. Thompson saved Sir Winston Churchill over 20 times including from shrapnel during the Blitz, plots by the IRA, Indian nationalists, Arab nationalists, Nazi agents, Greek Communists and the deranged.
wolX7 TIL the Apollo 8 Mission returned from Lunar orbit on Christmas Day and landed safely in the ocean, between Christmas Island and Hawaii, at night
OyO4 TIL that former world chess champion Gary Kasparov is a supporter of the pseudohistorical theory known as ‘New Chronology’, which claims that nearly everything we know about historical chronology is wrong, and that almost all of known human history actually happened after AD 1000.
RAR9 TIL in the movie Hook, the scene where Rufio swings his sword close to Peter Pans face and says the line “You’re dead, jollyman” was played in reverse for the movie. The actor had to learn to say those lines backwards.