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TIL in 2014 scientists discovered that trees can both absorb, and emit methane

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NBR1 TIL in 2009 Kashmir, when 18-year old Rukhsana Kauser saw her parents being beaten as part of a forced marriage proposal by a militia commander, she killed one militant with an axe, gunned the commander down, then started a 4 hour gun battle with the militia.
w0g7 TIL that Microsoft used to offer an IRC-based chat software that visually represented chats as sequences of comic panels and looked for cues in the text to help determine the comic character’s gestures and expressions.
JY6Bl TIL Lions may sleep a full 24 hours straight
LrMZ TIL naturalist Chris Packham said he would “eat the last panda if I could have all the money we have spent on panda conservation put back on the table for me to do more sensible things with.”
5GWp TIL Instead of being tried for war crimes, the Japanese researchers involved in human experimentation in Unit 731 were given immunity by the U.S. in exchange for their data obtained.