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TIL: That The Web of Life offers a critique on concepts like nature, wilderness, Gaia, and our everyday environments, challenging how we perceive the world around us.

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ZGrG TIL Inventor of Keurig K-Cup, regretting environmental waste from K-Cups, left and started a solar panel company
VMPvZ TIL the troopship "Queen Mary" transported 16, 683 troops in a single voyage, making it the most passengers ever to be transported on one vessel.
Y7GjA TIL the Earth's radius is about 21km (13mi) smaller at the poles compared to the equator.
M7OPm TIL that In 2015, that a three-story tall lamp post became so corroded by urine that it snapped and fell over, crushing a nearby car.
M7VK0 TIL that Ophiocordyceps unilateralis (zombie-ant fungus) has its own fungal hyperparasite sometimes referred to as the "anti zombie-fungus fungus" which limits its effect on ant colonies