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TIL That we could soon see algae lamps on streets powered by themselves and consuming up to 200x more CO2 than trees.

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ADQYd TIL that red-haired people were considered poisonous in the middle ages. People planned to melt the fat from them and use it as poison.
QQ1M TIL a man single-handedly planted a 1,360-acre forest at 16 and now lives there at the age of 47
GY1e1 TIL the Melanesian men who helped rescue JFK during WWII were invited to his inauguration, but were prevented from going by British officials who felt they weren’t dressed well enough to travel.
Oo16g TIL about an old film from 1915 called Filibus, Though Italian reviews at the time of its release were negative, Filibus has been well received by later writers and film historians, who have highlighted the film's pioneering use of lesbian attraction, genderfluidity , and science fiction motifs.
mxWEE TIL Osama bin Laden briefly attended a Quaker high school in Lebanon