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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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Obp1 TIL that The Australian Classification Board decides what vaginas must look like in porn. If a vagina has excess tissue it may be labelled as “offensive”, so porn companies must digitally edit or remove parts of the labia, leading to only one type of vagina seen in “unrestricted” magazines.
EgOQP TIL the first recorded worldwide manhunt began in 1695 when Englishman Henry Every, "The King of the Pirates", perpetrated the single most profitable act of piracy in history, netting the equivalent of £97m ($118m USD). He disappeared without trace the next year and his treasure was never recovered.
0OWy TIL the tax office of Munich sent Hitler a fine of 405.494 Reichsmarks for not paying taxes nor properly declaring his income. Instead of paying the new Führer simply declared himself tax-exempt.
XEZpD TIL Vlad the Impaler once repelled an attempted Ottoman invasion by making a forest of wooden stakes piled high with Ottoman corpses. According to Chalkokondyles, a contemporary Greek historian, there were over 20,000 people in his "Forest of the Dead"
KXME TIL there is enough energy in one hour of sunlight to serve the entire planet’s energy needs for approximately one year.