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TIL it is impossible to drive from North to South America because of a 60 mile break in the Pan-American highway called the Darién gap

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9Y5Xp TIL the majority of pearls come not from wild mollusks, but from farms where grafts are inserted into mollusks as a base for the formation of these "cultured" pearls.
XEV48 TIL doves and pigeons are the same thing
aw0bb TIL that in 1997 three boys in war- torn Sierre Leone were on the brink of starvation, when they spotted a single yam under a tree. They desperately went to dig it up, but when they did they discovered a 100 carat diamond underneath.
loan5 TIL about the ghost ship Deering. The ship was abandoned by the crew, who took personal belongings, navigational equipment, papers and the ship's anchor. Despite an FBI investigation, no trace of the crew or the ship's logs were ever found. Speculation ranges from a mutiny to Bolshevik pirates.
JYPLv TIL China has planted over 500 thousand square kilometers of forest since 1978 to combat the expansion of the Gobi Desert making it the largest forest plantation in the world. It’s expected to reach 4,500 km by 2050