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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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0woLy TIL A 3-year-old boy was buried with his tricycle after he was killed in the atomic blast at Hiroshima. The trike is now on display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
PYjWe TIL the drink Ribena comes from the botanical name for the blackcurrant, Ribes nigrum
VMQ4B TIL that Toto, the Japanese toilet company, created a motorcycle that runs on waste. It has a toilet for a seat.
negKB TIL The notion that we are all 99.9% the same came from looking for differences in our DNA letter by letter. The new studies show people not only have differences within their genes, but also in the number of their genes. We are definitely not as alike as we once believed.
v1m7K TIL that there is a place in England called Barton in the Beans