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TIL that there are no natural lakes in Maryland

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JpEQ TIL Al Capone was taking in about $105,000,000 a year in the 1920’s, or about 1.4 billion in today’s dollars
78NLX TIL the common mistakes tree planting programs make such as planting non-native trees, timber trees that won't mature, and trees where they never grew in the first place. Programs should focus on native trees that can mature and act as efficient carbon sinks.
VBke0 TIL that insulin for commercial and medical use is synthesized primarily from genetically-modified E. coli cultures, as well as yeasts, insect, plant and mammal tissues
9wKN7 TIL that the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars were violent conflicts in the 1980s involving rival ice cream truck drivers in Glasgow, Scotland. These drivers sold drugs from their trucks and resorted to shootings and arson in turf wars over profitable territories.
Pndw TIL former WWE wrestler Kurt Angle fractured two vertebrae during the 1996 Olympic Trials, herniating two discs and pulling four muscles, but still went on to win the trials and five months later take home the gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1996 Olympics.