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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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aw6PM TIL Jóhann Jóhannsson had spent a year writing the score for Darren Aronofsky's "Mother" and at some point realized that the film was better with no music at all. He convinced Darren to delete everything.
6b1m TIL that there is a bookstore in Portland, Oregon that takes up an entire city block
6VRJ TIL that even though mid-air collisions between 2 aircraft are extremely rare, there has been 1 recorded incident of a mid-air collision involving 3 aircraft in 1988.
kONb7 TIL that Parrots aren’t the only birds that can talk (imitate human speech). Mynah birds, Crows and Ravens have been known to do so as well
D1Wme TIL about Benford's Law - if you get a bunch of random numbers, the most common leading digit will be the number one (around 30%)