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TIL there are more trees in North America than there were 100 years ago.

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OGVN6 TIL from 1916 to 1917, Felix von Luckner of Imperial Germany led the SMS Seeadler, a sailing ship, to attack Allied merchant ships
0dmmL TIL states that passed laws allowing a married person to seek a divorce without the consent of their spouse saw female suicide decline by 20 percent
7VAp TIL the 80’s had awesome realistic water guns
wL17o TIL Theoretical physicist Abraham (Avi) Loeb made the case that microbes could have been ejected into space from earth by asteroid impacts billions of years ago, in a reverse kind of panspermia, theoretically leading to life being spread across the solar system or further.
ZpvNp Today I learned that Zip code stands for Zone Improvement Plan. Thanks Snapple!