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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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m0Zy TIL that a child was raised in isolation and abuse for 13 years, when she was found she had a mental age equivalent to a 13 month old baby.
ORVY TIL that beryllium, the fourth element on the periodic table, is rarely used by chemists. However, because it is light and strong, it is used in aircraft and cell phones. It is also highly toxic. Just ¼ milligram (mass of a grain of salt) can kill a rat.
xVblk TIL that Bobby Farrell, the only male member of 70s group Boney M, who scored a huge hit in the 70s with the Song Rasputin, died on the 30th December in Saint Petersburg, coincidentally dying on the same day and in the same city Rasputin had also died
ANwnw TIL On average, Mercury is the closest planet to Earth — and to every other planet in the solar system
VMjBD TIL that Henry Ford had initially lead the movement of shorter working weeks from the entrepreneurial side of things. He (counterintuitively at the time) showed that shorter working hours led to higher productivity.