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

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bBGp TIL when Michele Bachmann appeared in Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Roots played a snippet from Fishbone’s 1985 song “Lying Ass Bitch” for her entrance.
yVMyV TIL, that the least common birthday is the 25th of December and that in fact of the top ten least common birthdays are all days that holidays land on.
oBNdr TIL the man who pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry, Horace Wells, committed suicide in prison 3 days after throwing sulfuric acid at two prostitutes while under the influence of chloroform.
a8v5b TIL that when a Roman legion was pulled out of Caledonia ~90AD, they were ordered to destroy the entire garrison and leave nothing of use. They broke every ceramic jar, burned everything flammable, and took great care to hide 7 tons of handmade nails. The nails were not discovered until 1961.
x6Nvk TIL that because all US banknotes are the same size, making telling them apart hard-to-impossible for the blind, the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing provides an electronic device (the iBill Currency Identifier) that can identify the value of the bills free of charge.