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TIL Finland has ten trees for every person in the world

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4kmEw TIL in 2008 Chicago sold its 36,000 parking meter spots. Investors bought 75 years of right in $1.15b, and recouped the cost and $500m more in 15 years.
9KvB TIL synovial fluid found in human joints is one of the most slipperiest substances known to man (more slippery than Teflon)
b9E1Q TIL that Super 3D Noah's Ark, a Bible game where you play as Noah putting angry animals to sleep with pellets, originally started out as a Hellraiser tie-in, the grisly horror film with BDSM underpinnings.
a8PLo TIL the first special effect in a film was The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1895
pW1N TIL Cannabis is the largest cash crop in the U.S., exceeding corn and wheat combined