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TIL Germany has 90 billion trees

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Y5eB TIL that the idea of every fingerprint being completely unique is false, as there’s evidence of fingerprints so similar they were able to misguide sensors.
GYeAG TIL the Swastika symbol dates to 13000 BC and has been used by many cultures on nearly every continent.
OQM4 TIL Intel corporation gets 100% of its electricity from renewable sources.
VMpO8 TIL when the Romanov family was executed in 1918 the daughters Tatiana, Anastasia, and Maria survived the initial gunfire because they had over 1.3 kilograms (2.9 pounds) of diamonds sewn into their clothing, which the bullets ricocheted off. They were subsequently killed with bayonets.
grmlW TIL Calvin Coolidge called Americans and Russians "traditional friends" in his first radio address in December 1923. The Russian Empire supported the Patriots in the American Revolution, and the Union in the US Civil War in the 1700s-1800s.