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TIL Torture murderer Christa Pike who is scheduled to be executed later this year was apart of a thwarted escape attempt involving a prison guard and a man who had been writing her and driving over a thousand miles to visit her in prison.

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nWa79 TIL With 347 millions hectares of forest, Canada has 9% of the world's total forested area
GGAG TIL After a rude interaction, Zach Galifianakis once told January Jones “… everybody’s going to forget about you in a few years, so be fucking nice.”
OGVAe TIL that World War One flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker became a long-time head of Eastern Air Lines and survived well into the 1970s
nN5P TIL Wild cattle inhabits an island, originated from the introduction of 5 animals by a Farmer during his brief attempt at settlement of the island (1871), and had increased to a pop. of 2,000 (1988). They now form one of the only herds of feral cows anywhere in the world.
W9WB TIL an artificial Christmas tree would have to be reused for more than 20 years to be “greener” than buying a fresh-cut tree annually