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TIL about The Nature Consevancy NGO which owns and protects 119 million acres (almost the size of spain) of land with valuable biodiversity

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EVpW TIL name of the TIME magazine actually stands for “The International Magazine of Events”
yQKpw TIL that during the entire month of December in 2017, Moscow experienced only 6 minutes of sunlight total
R58K9 TIL Oreos are vegan. The “cream” filling is essentially vegetable oil and sugar.
nWK77 TIL Muhammad Ali released a comedy album in 1963 under his birth name titled "I Am the Greatest" and track 5 was "Round 5: Will the Real Sonny Liston Please Fall Down". The album is considered a precursor to hip hop music and the track is considered an early diss track.
XEwyr TIL of Jeremiah Horrocks who died 23 years old, was the only person to predict the transit of Venus in front of the sun in 1639, and one of only two people in the world to witness it, ...the first two ever, and likely the first in 600+ years.