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TIL A couple in Brazil planted 2 million trees over 20 years in order to bring back a rainforest that was destroyed due to deforestation. Now the area has status as a Private Natural Heritage Reserve and is home to 172 types of birds, 33 varieties of mammals, and 15 kinds of reptiles and amphibians.

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yQbdv TIL In 1950, a Nebraska church exploded during what was meant to be choir practice. But no one in the 15-person choir was hurt or killed, because they were all running late for different reasons. No one was in the building when it went up in flames.
W7kYY TIL about The Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows, a Catholic church carved into Antarctic ice and the southernmost place of worship in the world.
7r9Qx TIL of Daniel Boria. Labelled the 'Bolloniatic' Daniel flew over Calgary in Lawn Chair as publicity stunt for his cleaning company by strapping $13000 worth of industrial balloons onto a Canadian Tire lawn chair. Upon landing he was apprehended by police and later fined $5000 for the stunt.
b9014 TIL: Frederick Trump, Grandfather of Donald John Trump, had not yet served the mandatory military duty of two years in the Kingdom of Bavaria, fled to the United States and his emigration was illegal.
m1omp TIL about William Price, a Welsh physician and Neo Druid who after the death of his infant son Iesu Grist in 1884, performed one of the first modern cremations in the UK, burning the body on a pyre. He was arrested though acquitted as their was no law against cremation. He was 84...his wife was 18.