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TIL that society collapsed on Easter Island largely due to deforestation. One of the main reasons for this was that the trees were logged to move the giant Moai figures into position.

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0jJy TIL Tom Hanks’ brother, Jim Hanks, provides the voice for Woody in the Toy Story video games, short films, toys and basically anything that isn’t the Pixar movies.
0dPLN TIL about Zhang Shangwu, a Chinese gymnast who won two gold medals at the 2001 Beijing but became homeless after a torn Achilles tendon . Zhang performed street gymnastics and sold his medals for around $15 each.
dD48K TIL rocket scientists call explosions a Rapid Unscheduled Dissasembly (RUD)
wmE1 TIL: Germans in WWI built their trenches with perfect 90 degree angles to prevent pressure waves from mortars from killing soldiers
woG01 TIL that paintball was inspired by the 1924 short story The Most Dangerous Game, about an aristocrat who targets humans for sport.