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Drones can plant 40,000 trees in a month.

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LpMr TIL that one of Hitlers close friends and personal driver (Emil Maurice) had a Jewish ancestry. Hitler declared Emil and his brothers Honorary Aryans so that they could stay in the SS
j6j8p TIL of Operation Border Stone, where Czechslovak secret police set up fake border crossings near West Germany to capture people trying to escape the communist nation. The police held fake "welcome" interviews and led the refugees into path where real police awaited for them.
RXx9 TIL a New York man named Newman was arrested for fraud after pretending to be an architect in a bust referred to by the state as “Operation Vandelay Industries”
BrbOr TIL that 1 in 3 middle aged men are affected by baldness on their lower legs. This pattern of hair loss is extremely common yet hardly studied. Leg crossing, trouser rubbing and friction have all been suggested as causes, but no study has demonstrated what the actual cause is.
M7oG0 TIL In Barahona, Dominican Republic, there’s a “Magnetic Pole” phenomenom that a car put in neutral will be seen rolling UP a hill instead of down. This happens due to a gravity hill optical illusion.