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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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W7OD4 TIL that the first time an asteroid's impact on Earth was predicted before it happened was in 2008.
x6Mag TIL in 1868 King Mindon of Myanmar commissioned the Burmese-language Buddhist canon to be written on 729 stone tablets, each 1 meter tall. Each tablet is housed in its own structure at Kuthodaw pagoda in Mandalay. Although now black, the letters were originally inscribed in gold.
D1WoJ TIL in Germany companies who want to participate in a tendering process for public educational establishments must sign a declaration which states that they don't agree to or make use of L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology doctrines. This is defined by law through a so-called "Schutzklausel".
vDnj TIL The original Hoggle Muppet from The Labyrinth resides at The Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama.
MeywB TIL that the Norwegians, not the Japanese, invented salmon sushi