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Til about the french revolution (not that it happened, but WHY it dod)!

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ggo7 TIL An ad campaign used DNA found on discarded cigarette butts to construct digital portraits to publicly shame litterbugs
1aZ58 TIL Stanford researchers in Costa Rica found adding a single tree to pasture land could boost biodiversity. For example, the number of bird species after one tree was planted went from near zero to 80.
91bp TIL the asparagus we eat is actually the young shoot of the asparagus plant, which can grow up to 5ft tall and bears poisonous berries.
l7jZa TIL A re-edit of the pilot episode of Battlestar Galactica was released theatrically in 1978 in Canada before the television series aired in the United States, in order to help recoup its high production costs.
epkL5 TIL: That following the solar eclipse of August 11 1999, the BMJ reported only 14 cases of eye damage from improper viewing of the eclipse, a number lower than initially feared. In one of the most serious cases the patient had looked at the Sun without eye protection for 20 minutes.