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TIL That it is estimated that over 100 million trees are used annually to produce junk mail alone, and that 33% of all mail delivered is junk mail.

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ZKJv TIL Beavers are nocturnal.
0w7WM TIL that during the Povolzhye Famine of 1921-1922 in the USSR, the USA provided enough food to feed 10.5 million people a day, limiting the death toll to 5 million people
eLBJ TIL Carrie Fisher told her fans: “No matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.”
l7K81 TIL in 1943 engineer Richard James accidentally knocked over a tension spring - inspiring him to create the Slinky. By 2000, more than 250 million had been sold.
p60e TIL that the US government paid an average of $1.8 million to the families of the victims of 9/11