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TIL peat is the most effective carbon sink on the planet, covering just 3% of the land’s surface, but storing 42% of the Earth’s soil carbon.

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6EJMQ TIL: The Blue Ringed Octopus is both venomous and poisonous thanks to the neurotoxin Tetrodotoxin
P7ne TIL there was a woman who survived a gas chamber, three Nazi concentration camps, testing by the infamous Nazi Doctor Josef Mengele, a death march, and shared a barracks with the dying Dutch teenager Anne Frank.
JYnXl TIL in the Ancient Greek Olympics, competitors found cheating were fined. The money would pay for a statue of Zeus with a plaque shaming the offender, and placed on the road to the stadium.
5V7Mp TIL - the Kamasutra English translation only talks about sex and the male perspective. but it's a philosophical book about relationships and love. only 20% of the book is about sex. it was selectively translated to suit "filthy paganism" narrative of the British.
OoME7 TIL in 1977 the mayor of Vulcan, WV requested foreign aid from the Soviet Union after two years of requests to the state about repairing the town's only bridge. Within an hour of a Russian journalist's arrival, the state agreed to help repair the bridge.