Post * Ypk8P — Curious Curator

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TIL junk mail destroys 100 million trees a year. The equivalent of deforesting all of Rocky Mountain National Park every four months.

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kPLW TIL in the early 1900s a transexual man (born as a woman) was able to pass for a man, enabling him to vote, marry two successive wives, adopt a daughter and successfully stand for political office in NYC.

BrD1r TIL that there is more water in the vapor and clouds above the Amazon rainforest than there is in the Amazon river

7rvZp TIL that the most remote inhabited place on earth, the island of Tristan da Cunha, is 1250 miles from the next closest inhabited location. With no airstrip and out of civilian helicopter flying range, the fastest way to travel to it is a 6 day boat journey from South Africa.

OGnNa TIL Vitamin C does little to boost your immunity against colds

8eBbP TIL that Montserrat's official capital, Plymouth, has been abandoned since 1997 when it was destroyed by an eruption of the Soufrière Hills volcano. Since then, the de facto capital has been the town of Brades. Montserrat is the only territory on Earth with a ghost town as its capital.