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TIL a woman is facing up to 10 years of imprisonment for giving water to pigs on their way to the slaughterhouse

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GYy8j TIL Oregon forest landowners plant around 40 million trees every year.
awVQZ TIL Dutch marathon swimmer Maarten van der Weijden successfully battled Leukemia and made a comeback to win the Olympics Gold in 10 km open water. He has now raised 2.5 million Euro for cancer research by swimming 165 km in 55 hours.
7rB07 TIL about Resin Canal Discolouration. While the fruit is still safe to eat, a bacteria causes the discolouration of the canals in the flesh of the mango.
1Vp8 TIL In the late Devonian period (during the evolution of terrestrial plants), there was a ‘wood crisis’. Trees became abundant, took CO2 out of the air, and caused an ice age, simply because the fungi that eventually would decompose dead wood & return the CO2 to the air hadn’t evolved yet.
JJXv TIL a Japanese Oil Tanker captain fell into a cactus at a Santa Barbra Oil Field, provoking laughter from the local workers. 5 years later he returned in an Imperial Japanese Navy sub and made the first mainland shelling of the US at that oil field.