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TIL: That seagrass can convert 20 times more carbon per acre than land forests.

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b9Kn4 TIL that a large alliance of Native American tribes, the Timucua, consisted of over 200,000 people spread across 35 chiefdoms. They were probably the first Natives Ponce de Leon met in Florida. The nation was wiped out before 1800 and all evidence of religious items and art were burned by explorers.
g4gL TIL that in 2014 a potential new state of matter called “disordered hyperuniformity” was discovered in the eye of a chicken.
kDwd TIL Albert Einstein believed in “Spinoza’s God”, who “reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.”
RwLl TIL Residents of a Johannesburg town protested microwave towers claiming headaches, nausea, tinnitus, rashes, gastric/sleep issues that subsided after leaving the coverage area. After a meeting with residents the tower’s owners revealed the towers had been switched off more than six weeks earlier.
ne1YW TIL Cincinnati has 2 miles of incomplete subway tunnels that have been abandoned, yet in decent shape, for almost 100 years.