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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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rND5o TIL That as well as Warm and Cold blooded creatures, there's also a third type called Mesothermic to which some Dinosaurs may have belonged.
OpnR TIL 45 Million people were accidentally starved to death in China due to a pest control program that backfired in 1958. The program eliminated sparrows, which caused bug populations to explode and destroy crops.
x60J1 TIL in the African country of Equatorial Guinea, they are building a new city called Ciudad de la Paz to replace the current capital, Malabo, because the new capital is on the mainland of the country making access to the capital easier since the current capital is on an island far from the mainland.
DQJ1p TIL of the only person ever to return a Pulitzer Prize, journalist Janet Cooke, due to her fabricating a story of an 8-year-old heroin addict which triggered a city-wide search
ZlVY TIL the American aircraft carrer USS Harry S. Truman will never be forward deployed to Japan as a sign of respect to the Japanese as Truman approved the use of atomic weapons on Japan