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TIL that trees near rivers with salmon grow three times faster than trees without them - because bears leave their carcasses to decompose on the banks

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j6na TIL that there is an American Ultimate Disc League, and it’s apparently gaining steam.
0dGWp TIL Nurse Violet Jessop survived a collision on the Olympic (1911), the sinking of the Titanic (1912) and the sinking of the Britannic (1916 during WWI)
8apDL TIL the flag is flown at half-staff during periods of mourning to make room for the "invisible flag of death" above it.
v1ZyL TIL John Lennon tried to convince Paul McCartney to drill a hole in his skull as part of a practice called trepanning explaining “All you’d have to do is just bore a little hole in your skull and it lets the pressure off. Paul replied ‘ John, you try it and let me know how it goes.'”
epBA6 TIL : In World War II, the youngest serviceman in the US military was Calvin Graham — age 12. Graham lied about his age when he enlisted in the US Navy. His real age was not discovered after he was wounded.