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TIL that the trees on earth outnumber the stars in our galaxy about 30 to 1

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GAw6E TIL that Edgar Allan Poe wrote his first detective stories after trying to debunk a famous chess-playing "robot" called The Mechanical Turk in 1836. Poe asserted that a mechanical chess player would play perfectly, but noticed that the Turk occasionally erred, and therefore suspected its creation.
aVDJ TIL the word “slave” is derived from “Slav” since many Slavs were commonly enslaved in the early Middle Ages
wLrJ7 TIL that there was a Muslim slave revolt in Salvador during Ramadan in 1835
PYALG TIL over 95% of pilots land their planes when conditions dictate that they shouldn’t.
nxJr TIL: The movie “Cabin in the Woods” was suppose to have a tie-in with the game Left 4 Dead, and even had the game’s special infected hidden in the final movie.