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TIL The Earth is 5% greener today than 20 years ago

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n6AP TIL When 71 potential witnesses to a murder in a Belfast bar all claimed to be in the toilet during the attack, the 4 x 3 foot toilet became known as the TARDIS.
5VGPn TIL about Poles of inaccessibility.
wMP7 TIL that Misha Collins (Castiel from “Supernatural”) is the founder and Guiness Book Of World Records recipient of “The Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen” or the world’s largest scavenger hunt.
4kXmR TIL in 1991 As a Captain HR McMaster lead a legendary tank battle in Iraq that destroyed a much larger Iraqi tank force. He defeated 28 Iraqi Republican Guard tanks in 23 minutes with no loses. This earned him a Silver Star for valor.
v16gB TIL about Daniel Freeman, a Civil War veteran and the first person to claim land under the Homestead Act. Later in life, he brought up and won a landmark separation of church and state case against a teacher who was evangelizing to her students with permission from the school board.