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TIL there are green bugs

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GbY7 TIL the Amazon Rainforest area originally had terrible farming soil, until indigenous people invented a “superdirt” which remains fertile for thousands of years, renews and propagates by itself, and may currently cover as much as 10% of the Amazon basin.
Oo6n6 TIL that Bob Marley's song 'War' is almost totally an artistic interpretation of Hailie Selassie's 1963 address to the United Nations.
PY7re TIL that in the early 19th-century the planet "Vulcan" was believed to actually exist in our solar system. Oddities in the orbit of Mercury led mathematicians to predict the presence of another planet closer to the sun. Later, Einstein's new theories of relativity helped disprove that hypothesis.
YpQjZ TIL at the age of 14, in 1905, Charles de Gaulle wrote a short story titled "General De Gaulle" in which he imagined himself leading the French Army to victory over Germany "sometime in the 1930s."
epRNE TIL that cremation adds about 360000 metric tons of CO2 into the air a year. The same as approximately 78000 autos per year