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TIL before the modern ambulance, funeral homes used hearses to bring patients to the hospital. This is because the hearse was often the only vehicle long enough to fit a stretcher inside.

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l7W8K TIL that Iceland's largest tree is a 75-year-old Sitka spruce, planted in 1949 in the forest of Kirkjubæjarklaustur. Measuring 80+ feet in 2013, the tree portrays the importance of forestry and reclaiming land for natural usage in the region's thin, volcanic soils, which are subject to erosion.
pd1Q TIL that Samuel Morse, in the process of writing Morse Code, modeled the letter “V” as “dit-dit-dit-dah”. This was a reflection of the first 4 notes in Beethoven’s Symphony No.5 also known as the “Victory symphony”.
l77La TIL nearly 4 million chickens, 726,000 pigs, and 29,000 cattle die in transport every year – just in the U.S.
J1rO1 TIL Worldwide in 2024 there were 212% more births than deaths ... 119 people died per minute & 252 people were born per minute.
OGO4X TIL that in 2017 and 2018, three academics submitted hoax articles, among them a Mein Kampf Passage rewritten with feminist lingo, into Gender and Race research journals in order to expose corruption in the field they called "grievance studies" They got away with it until their public reveal in 2018