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TIL that there are more living organisms in one teaspoon of soil than there are humans on earth. Happy World Soil Day!

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8a8nK TIL that a plane carrying 6,000 pounds of pot crashed in Yosemite National Park. Climbers in Yosemite Valley heard news of the crash and sparked a miniature gold rush with up to 20 people searching the frozen crash site. Much of the weed was salvaged, smoked, or sold before park rangers caught on.
nWX6r TIL that Johnny Nash, famous for his song "I Can See Clearly Now" (1972), sang the theme song for the 1960s cartoon "The Mighty Hercules".
jyOp TIL The United States first space station, Skylab crashed in Australia. The county where it crashed fined NASA $400 for littering. NASA never paid the ticket.
XEypj TIL a web developer bought the domain name milk.com in 1994, then refused to sell any part of it to industry for less than $10 million. In 2021 the domain has still not been sold.
OogJe TIL that in the 1940s President Johnson,at the time a Congressman, used to drive around with a snake in his trunk because he believed black people were scared of snakes. He used to go to fuel stations get served by black guys and make them open the trunk and he was almost beaten with a tire iron