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TIL that deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon have plummeted 80% in the last decade

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vpP7 TIL under French law, 40 percent of all music played on national radio must be performed in the French language.
LXWr TIL Silent reading is a recent phenomenon. Only the most skilled readers of the middle ages could read silently.
rWPw TIL Coyotes are becoming more common in urban areas, with ~2000 in the Chicago area alone.
4QaJ TIL Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II (1194-1250) tried to discover a “natural language” of humans by having children raised without exposure to language. Allegedly, he never learned the answer because they all died.
R7pk8 TIL Neuroscience shows people can’t actually read and listen at the same time so having too much text on a PowerPoint slide is useless