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TIL United States forests are growing rather than shrinking and have been since the 1940s

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dvQZ TIL Africa’s population is the youngest among all the continents; 50% of Africans are 19 years old or younger.
E1ard TIL when taking an oath of office, Kentucky officials have to swear they've never fought a duel with deadly weapons.
rNG5x TIL In 1794, a doctor in Virginia performed a successful Caesarean section on his own wife.
AN9ZB TIL the Majority of Millennials and Gen Z use subtitles when streaming TV
7rgPP TIL Of Jack Tueller, a WWII soldier who was also a trumpet player and carried his instrument everywhere with him. He believes it saved his life from a German sniper in France. Figuring his enemy was just a scared kid like him, Jack played a love song before he set out. The sniper never fired.