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TIL that Bhutan is the only country that absorbes more CO2 than it produces.

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R5DDQ TIL mother and daughter Laurie Metcalf and Zoe Perry play the same character, Mary Cooper on two different (yet related) TV shows.
N74WJ TIL in 1842, the British had an army of 16,000 men retreating from Kabul, Afghanistan. Only one man survived after losing some of his skull, protected by a magazine stored in his hat. He arrived in Jalalabad and when asked where the army was, he stated "I am the army".
QoDe TIL trees in woods form a network with each other through which they send information of any nearby dangers. They can also count, learn, remember and care for each other.
0dXQ5 TIL that a brain can be large but made of relatively few neurons if those neurons are huge, like in an elephant; primate neurons are small, and bird neurons are even tinier.
1VND TIL a storm uncovered a settlement with stone housing, beds, dressers, shelving and cupboards and jewellery along with a built in drainage system and toilets. It’s over 5000 y/o. The inhabitants lived nearer to the age of mammoths and sabre tooth cats than they did to 2013. Meet the Flintstones…