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TIL: In China, a man who is blind and a man with double arm amputation have worked together for 13 years to plant trees. The trees will help prevent flooding in their rural village, as well as help the environment in general.

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aBob TIL: Dian Fossey, American Primatologist murdered in Rwanda, left all her money (including movie profits from “Gorillas in the Mist”) to the Digit Fund to finance anti-poaching patrols, but her mother challenged the will and was successful.
oa08 Today I Learned of the Tulsa Center of the Universe. An acoustic anomaly located in Oklahoma. When one stands in the center of the circle and makes a noise, that noise is echoed back several times louder than it was made, but no one standing outside the circle can hear a thing.
YdZv TIL Doctors from teaching hospitals around the world regularly hold Morbidity and Mortality Conferences (or simply M&Ms), where they can candidly discuss unexpected patient deaths. The discussions are confidential and legally protected, and help improves patient mortality rates.
g6N7 TIL that Lee County, Alabama sheriff’s office told people who had fallen behind on child support that they had won tickets to the Alabama/Auburn football game. Then arrested them when they came to collect their free tickets.
Wk0YL TIL that Andre Geim won the parodistic Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for his work on using magnetism to levitate a frog. 10 years later, his experiments regarding graphene won him the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. This makes him the only ever recipient of both the Ig Nobel and Nobel Prizes.