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TIL that cats are directly responsible, over the years, for the extinction of no fewer than 33 bird species worldwide. Meow

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vP1Z8 TIL that there are more trees on earth (3 trillion) than stars in the Milky Way (100-400 billion).
69dyw TIL The lines "No man is an island" and "...for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee." Both come from Meditation XVII of John Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. Donne quickly wrote his meditations following a terrible illness.
yQRPJ TIL it was once believed "Crack Babies" did not like to be interacted with and could not learn like normal children. They were not treated like normal children and were given poorer early childhood care and education. When these practices were stopped most of the problems they had went away.
p8dwp TIL of Witold Pilecki a Polish Cavalry officer who volunteered to be smuggled into Auschwitz in order to later escape and tell of the horrors.
epmRL TIL when Mongols defeated the Poles at the battle of Legnica, they beheaded him and paraded his head. His wife recognized his mutilated body by his eleventh toe.