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TIL : Forest fires are in some way benefitial for the forest.

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D1rBp TIL that the name of the inventor of the lithium-ion battery (which is fine, but not perfect) is John B Goodenough
0g45 TIL that the palm plant most commonly known as the GIVE AND TAKE in Belize, Chrysophila argentea, Has an anti-coagulant poison in it’s needle like bark. The only known remedy to stop the bleeding and infection is the sap located underneath the bark itself.
wGr6 TIL that “You can’t eat your cake and have it, too” is the correct form of the proverb, because its order is what illustrates the impossibility. The Unabomber got the order correct in both his manifesto & private writing & this was 1 of the linguistic anachronisms that helped the FBI identify him
9YaAM TIL about Paricutin, a 424 meter volcano born in a Mexican cornfield in 1943. By 1944 two nearby villages were abandoned. 3 people died after being struck by lightning generated by the eruptions. It’s been dormant since 1952.
M7GQb TIL the Hoover Institution has a recording thought to be of a secretly bugged meeting of British and American POWs in a German POW camp.