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TIL There are twice as many trees in the UK today as there were a hundred years ago.

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ne7Lo TIL that American Civil War Union soldiers were issued 36 pounds of coffee a year and the word "coffee" appeared more in journal entries than "war," "bullet," "cannon," "slavery," "mother" or "Lincoln."
vP8e7 TIL Prolific author, screenwriter and filmmaker Michael Crichton wrote a video game called Amazon for the Apple II series computer in 1984
rRPEe TIL that after Puyi, the last Emperor of China, was dethroned, he worked as a street cleaner and would visit the Forbidden Palace as a tourist and point out the various objects on display that he used to own as Emperor.
e0v9E Today I learned that the smallest a neutron star can be is 12.5 miles but it has the mass of 1.5 of our sun.
9w6Ym TIL that the lizard has the largest poop-to-body-size ratio of any animal recorded at 80% of its body mass. The previous record, the Burmese python, had a poop 13% of its body mass. That's the equivalent of the average American releasing a 144-pound poop.