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TIL There are approximately 3.04 TRILLION trees on Earth. More than the number of stars and planets in the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies combined.

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D1a6e TIL of Bone Music: in the Soviet Union, people craved Western pop music but vinyl was scarce, so they printed records on used x-rays
e0WAJ TIL that kangaroos and other marsupials have three vaginas and that a female kangaroo can be perpetually pregnant.
GAPn1 TIL about the Moon is Down by John Steinbeck (1942), the most popular piece of Allied propaganda in Nazi occupied Europe during WWII. Steinbeck was awarded the Freedom Cross by the King of Norway after the war for having “bolstered the morale of his entire war-ravaged nation”.
VBWa8 TIL There Was A Priest On The Toronto Maple Leafs
gwa8 TIL that Steve Jobs contracted a form of cancer that was slow growing and most likely to be cured, and the reason he didn’t survive was because he chose to hold off surgery for 9 months in favor of alternative treatments like acupuncture, dietary supplements and juices