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TIL that each year, 22,000 pounds of dust from the Sahara Desert is carried by air currents to the Amazon Rainforest where it is an important source of phosphorus for tropical plant

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0wDyR TIL that Abraham Lincoln's religious views are highly ambiguous and a matter of debate. He never joined any Church, and was a skeptic as a young man and sometimes ridiculed revivalists. Many friends and family of Lincoln rejected that he was a believing Christian.
84Pb TIL the DNA information in a single sperm contains 37.5 MB worth of data. Which means that an average ejaculation almost instantly transfers roughly 1,500 terabytes of data.
wLwN7 TIL about “The Compton Cowboys” a group of young African-American men that have found peace and turned their backs on gang violence through the care and riding of horses in urban Los Angeles
oBy8A TIL that Stockbridge Police Chief William J. Obanhein, who in 1964 posed for Norman Rockwell famous Ruby Bridges painting "The Problem We All Live With", was surprisingly also the “Officer Obie” of Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 hit song “Alice’s Restaurant.”
OGGog TIL that when American Idol premiered in 2002, it had two hosts: Ryan Seacrest and Brian Dunkleman. Dunkleman resigned after the first season, while Seacrest continued on with the show and earned about $10 million a year. Dunkleman was later reported driving for Uber.