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TIL that coastal redwood trees can sequester 250 metric tons of carbon in their 2,500 year lifespan. The largest, the General Sherman tree, has sequestered 392 metric tons of carbon and is still growing.

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ldON TIL learned that studio execs balked when Jim Carrey asked for $400,000 for Dumb and Dumber. Then Ace Ventura: Pet Detective came out and the studio had to pay Carrey $7 million to do the movie!
X011P TIL that two scientists realised that the very same AI/ML technology they developed to discover medicines for rare diseases could also discover 40,000 new chemical weapons in under a day.
nekV9 TIL Asphalt is not a modern material. Regular production of asphalt is known from the 3rd millennium BC. The Babylonians even used it to fasten carved eyes to statues.
XnOX TIL that juries can legally vote “Not Guilty” if they don’t agree with the morality of the law being applied to the defendant, but many judges refuse to let the jury know about this power as they believe morality is too complex for the average person to judge.
gENy TIL of a website called MakeLoveNotPorn that shows videos of regular people having sex. It is dedicated to making sex less culturally taboo and works to subvert the negative ideas about sex and sexuality that are propagated by porn.