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TIL that there are more trees on earth than there are stars in the milky way [3 trillion to 400 billion]

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WXrX TIL voice actress Kathryn Beaumont voiced Alice from “Alice in Wonderland” at age 13, and again at age 64 for “Kingdom Hearts”
8aJ78 TIL that newspaper magnates Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst promoted the "annexation" of both Hawaii and Philippines in 1898 by publishing sensationalist articles to whip up support for imperialism which President Grover Cleveland was against.
xWj0 TIL that when President Roosevelt visited The Pentagon in 1945 before its dedication he ordered them to remove the whites only signes and therefore making The Pentagon the only building in Virginia were segregation laws were not enforced until 1965.
EYNx TIL Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the U.S., was the first president to have electricity in the White House, but wouldn’t touch the switch because he was too scared of being electrocuted.
b6Oap TIL it is dangerous to blow air into a pregnant women's vagina. The increased air pressure can pass beneath the fetal membranes and into the circulation causing a venous air embolism that can kill within minutes.