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TIL Ethiopia planted 350 million trees in less than one day

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JYLY1 TIL the shocking origin behind the ‘light a bag of poop on fire on someone’s porch’ joke! (VIDEO)
5Yne8 TIL: Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate to more than 80%.
XELv6 TIL of SR-71 Blackbird test pilot Bill Weaver, who survived a free fall from space after his plane disintegrated around him doing Mach 3.2
PgbV TIL if you skydive 17 times a year for your entire life, and drive an average amount in a car for your entire life, your odds of dying from either activity are about the same.
DyQp TIL that electricity was installed in the White House in 1891 during the presidency of Benjamin Harrison. He was so afraid of being electrocuted that he and his family never operated the light switches, always making his servants do it for them. He often slept with the lights on.