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TIL there is a form of edible wood.

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PYnlG TIL the Bramble Cay Melomys is among the first mammals to disappear because of failure to adapt in the modern era. Some time between 2009 and 2014 the last of this species died, probably drowning in a storm surge on an island off the coast of Australia where it had thrived for thousands of years.
N79ob TIL Barter wasn't what societies used before money. Gift-giving and credit were the main means of exchanging goods and services.
XEjVE TiL about Salaria Kea, thought to be the only African-American nurse to volunteer with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War.
WkoyY TIL that a teen stalker stole Queen Victoria’s panties and lived in Buckingham Palace chimneys for a year.
P1ZZe TIL You could fit all the planets of the Solar System between the Earth and the Moon