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TIL there are more trees on earth than stars in the milky way…..with Canada, Siberia, and Scandinavia the “lungs of the planet.”

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QNJod TIL there's a food preserving technology called High Pressure Processing that puts food under 6000 bars of pressure and kills the bacteria by crushing it under the huge pressure, even at cold temperatures. It is widely used for store bought Guacamole.
oBwKL TIL in 2018 NASA scientists have devised a set of new, modern constellations. These include the Hulk, Godzilla, TARDIS, Mjolnir and the U.S.S. Enterprise.
yQDDv TIL of the Turner Doomsday Video where if the world were to ever end CNN would air this pre recorded video
wYRM Today I learned that there is a special two-seater suit for astronauts to have sex in space
VBX1G TIL of Susan Travers, the British-born WWII veteran who was the only woman to ever serve in the French Foreign Legion