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TIL a man single-handedly planted a 1,360-acre forest at 16 and now lives there at the age of 47

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xV755 TIL of Sybil Ludington. At 16, she rode twice as far as Paul Revere, 40 miles overnight, to warn of an impending British attack during the American Revolutionary War.
MeBE8 TIL in 2018, almost half of all fatalities from vehicle crashes were not wearing a seatbelt, 29% were driving impaired, and 27% were speeding related.
W7448 TIL John Cena holds the record for the most wishes granted through the Make-A-Wish foundation, coming in at 650
oBe07 TIL the FBI mounted a 4-year-long undercover surveillance operation to nab Jared "The Subway Guy" Fogle, after he made some inappropriate comments about middle school girls to a female reporter
oBR5E TIL that the Japanese have a word ("shimensoka") that means "being forsaken by everybody" or "being surrounded by enemies on all sides"