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TIL forrest growth in the US has exceeded harvest since the 1940’s, and that today we have more trees than any time in the past 100 years.

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DQg1v TIL the Moon is not cold and solid, it has a hot, liquid-iron outer core at the centre
nedAB TIL that glue was made by melting horses, fish, and other animals before the invention of synthetic adhesives
ANaOo TIL that in the first edition of the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory novel, The Oompa Loompas were Black pygmies imported from "the deepest and darkest part of the African jungle,"
GwEN TIL the wife of disgraced Enron CEO Ken Lay, Linda Lay, sold roughly 500,000 shares of Enron 10 to 30 minutes before news about the collapse of the company went public. She was never charged with any of the events related to Enron.
yVNlJ TIL Rhapsody Rabbit--directed by Friz Freleng and featuring Bugs Bunny--was the first cartoon to be broadcast on Cartoon Network when the channel launched on October 1, 1992 and features Bugs shooting a concertgoer for coughing