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Ypk8P TIL junk mail destroys 100 million trees a year. The equivalent of deforesting all of Rocky Mountain National Park every four months.
rNKpe TIL that the first vehicle powered by wood gas was built in 1901 by a man named T.H. Parker.
epgbk TIL about Dinner for One, a 1963 sketch comedy traditionally watched in Denmark and other European Countries to celebrate New Years.
9Y9gB TIL of "MileHighClub" tours, which chartered flights with voyeur cams from Florida for people who wanted to have “sex in the sky”. The company suspended operations after an elderly couple booked the “Quickie” flight & were killed trying to hijack the plane to Cuba, crashing it into the sea
d8Pjr TIL That the October Russian revolution actually occurred in November as the Russians did not change to the Julian calendar until the Soviet era