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TIL there was a plan in the 1930’s to totally reconfigure the interior of Africa by creating a series of huge inland seas.

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rPYe TIL of “aerial reforestation” - a process whereby conical canisters which contain a seedling packed in soil and nutrients are dropped from a plane. They could drop as many as 100,000 saplings in a single flight. The system could plant as many as a million trees in one day.
W7L5N TIL in 2012, Canada had a $100 bill featuring an Asian-looking woman using a microscope, but after focus group complaints, changed her ethnicity to Caucasian.
v914 TIL “Coke” is the second most recognizable word across all languages, with the first being “OK”
vPeE7 TIL that the flag of Haiti was created when revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines grabbed a French flag and ripped the white band off. His goddaughter Catherine Flon sewed the blue and red bands back together, creating the first Haitian flag. Flon is widely admired in Haiti today.
b9bBj TIL Most shooting stars you see are incredibly small, usually being not much larger than a grain of sand.