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TIL: That SHARKS are OLDER than TREES.

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8a6OZ TIL that male chicks are disposed of only days after birth, considered an "unwanted byproduct." They are killed by carbon dioxide gassing or maceration
j6wEn TIL The billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig created the Jari Project, a 4 million acres paper pulp farm/factory/planned community in Brazil in 1967. By 1981 Ludwig divested himself of the expensive failing project. The Jari Project was just down stream from Henry Ford's failed Fordlandia rubber farm.
RMn9 TIL Greyhounds have a 270-degree range of vision. They can see objects behind them and over ½ mile in front of them.
dvOQ TIL Twenty year old Ben Franklin devised a list of virtues to help him live a better life, a list which he followed until he died at age 84. They include: “Imitate Jesus and Socrates” and “avoid trifling conversation”
orOr TIL that as a youth, George R.R Martin wrote stories about a mythical kingdom in which his pet turtles resided; he decided, since the turtles frequently died in their toy castle, that they were the victims of “sinister plots” designed by the others. Game of Turtles, indeed.