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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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QN409 Til there were no former US presidents alive at the time of NIxon’s resignation.
8a8a TIL that Samsung made the chips for Apple’s iPod Touch for its first 3 generations
4Zeb TIL the smell given off by books can be used to tell the age of the books, and how close the books are to degradation.
vP8RR TIL: That the final of the 100m at the 1924 Paris Olympics took place at 7pm on the 7th July 1924. Every year thereafter, at 7pm on the 7th July, winner Harold Abrahams and bronze medalist Arthur Porritt would dine together, until Abrahams's death in 1978.
VV9G TIL In 1981 India launched a satellite that was transported on an ox-cart, with the rocket parts carried on the back of bicycles.