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TIL the United Kingdom still has temperate rainforests.

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NXxmM TIL more people died taking selfies (379) than from shark attacks (90) between 2008-2021.
XEMZQ TIL in Outback Australia in areas where nobody used to worry about drink driving, distances were often measured in beers. The distance to a nearby town could be ‘only a sixpack’ but a longer trip to the nearest city could be as far as 'a carton’
69m0Y TIL there were different variations of The Simpsons opening theme because starting with season 2 they made 3 versions: the full 1-minute-15-second-long version, a 45-second and a 25-second. This gave editors a little extra flexibility to pad shorter episodes or add as much footage as possible.
a8nbJ TIL a German fighter pilot ended up escorting a heavily-damaged American bomber out of German airspace in 1943 after he saw the bomber pilot struggling with the plane and his shattered crew. After 50 years, the two pilots found each other and became close friends
RMn9 TIL Greyhounds have a 270-degree range of vision. They can see objects behind them and over ½ mile in front of them.