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TIL there are more trees in the US today, than 100 years ago

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VMlpZ TIL Pythagoras had a weird cult that lasted for centuries after his death. They worshiped numbers, invented the first robot (a steam-powered pigeon) and were afraid of beans because they cause excessive flatulence. He was murdered when he was chased to a bean field and refused to cross it.
LE8P TIL World’s 100 richest earned enough in 2012 to end global poverty 4 times over.
ylvv TIL Foreskins are used to make high-end skin creams. The skin products contain fibroblasts grown on the foreskin and harvested from it. One foreskin can be used for decades to produce fancy face cream like the SkinMedica products hawked on Oprah
Z8LRR TIL North Korea started to attempt to emulate certain aspects of China’s economic reform policies in 1980s, but both Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il felt great hostility toward China after Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path of pursuing market-oriented “socialism with Chinese characteristics”
16lOO TIL that Central Asia has a variety of Mandarin Chinese that is written in the Cyrillic Alphabet. It is regarded as its own separate language called "Dungan"