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TIL that India broke a Guinness World Record, planted 66 million trees in just 12 hours!!

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l7K17 TIL: A 2020 study revealed that one's taste is connected with their ethnicity and gender. Asians experience taste more intensely due to being more likely to be "supertasters" having the compound 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) and being thermal tasters. Caucasians are much less sensitive in comparison.
5kak TIL when the Lenni Lanape Indians agreed to give the amount of land that a man could walk in 36 hours to Pennsylvania, the governor hired a team fast runners, resulting in Pennsylvania taking an area of 1,200,932 acres.
kO4x1 TIL "Giraffe" is a relatively new term. Before the 1600s they were known as "Camelopards".
gMNaL TIL that in 2012, 10 year old Clara Lazen accidentally invented a new type of molecule called Tetranitratoxycarbon, they found out when she assembled carbon, oxygen and nitrogen atoms in a random way on a model. The teacher passed it on to a friend, and it was new. In the paper, she was credited.
kXM4 TIL that a library in Dublin puts readers in cages to prevent them from walking off with rare books