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TIL one year of fossil-fueled space rocket launches creates as much black carbon as the global aviation industry in the same period.

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GYVE1 TIL of slope point, the southernmost point of new Zealand. The wind in this area is so strong that trees grow almost sideways.
GXAN TIL that a 19-year old Dutch teenager created an invention that could clean up the seas in just 5 years instead of 79 000 years required with the technical means available today
dD8dE TIL that in 2019, a man from Gujarat, India, bit a snake after the snake had bitten him. Both he and the snake died.
yVPMJ TIL There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth
OoZy6 TIL no one could figure out how Ferrari f1 driver Alonso was gaining so much speed on the straights until a video showed him taking his left hand off the wheel to cover a hole in the cockpit, decreasing the drag and downforce by changing airflow. It was then banned.