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TIL Earth's oldest land ecosystem was spotted in South African rock cores

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vPByB TiL the human brain can generate enough electricity to power a small light bulb.
oB00L TIL about the Akutan Zero (also known as Koga's Zero), a Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero that crashed on a small island in Alaska during the Battle of Dutch Harbor, killing its young pilot and giving America an intelligence bonanza
b9xoa TIL that in 2011, a New York man died on his motorcycle while participating in a protest against the law for mandatory helmets. The police say he would likely have survived had he worn a helmet.
gMoV9 TIL of Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome, a form of OCD that compels those suffering from it to constantly correct others' grammar.
0dgyL TIL once commonly known as “the redwood of the east,” American Chestnut trees are almost entirely extinct in the wild as of the 1940s with the exception of small, scattered populations