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TIL that Christmas trees can be recycled. Louisiana uses them to build shoreline fences to reduce erosion and form new marshes.

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rDwd TIL almost half of all vetoes ever cast since the UN Security Council’s inception came from its member USSR/Russia
5ELR TIL ants can combine multiple colonies into “Supercolonies” which contain multiple queens. One of the largest on record included an estimated 306 million worker ants and one million queen ants living in 45,000 interconnected nests.
5YYok TIL it was proposed that the Bureau of Land Management cut all funding for the care of wild American mustang herds, and instead allow them to be sold to horse meat dealers who supply Canadian and Mexican slaughterhouses.
R77l TIL 1/3 of divorce papers contain the word ‘facebook’ in them.
nbdo TIL African-American physicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson calculated the trajectory for Alan Shepard’s first space flight by hand. When NASA used computers for the first time to calculate John Glenn’s orbit around Earth, officials called on Johnson to verify its numbers.