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TIL that Canada still has 91% of the forest cover that existed at the beginning of European settlement

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m14bo TIL webcams were first invented in 1993 as a way to check for coffee at Cambridge University
0wXEN TIL that the North Pole is not a land mass, but rather a body of water that is almost permanently covered in a 2-3m thick ice sheet.
4kaPg TIL of the Astronomical Unit, or AU, a unit of length equivalent to the distance between the Earth and the Sun, measuring 149,597,870.7 kilometres exactly. It's also a fundamental component in defining another unit of astronomical measurement, the parsec.
W7pYB TIL that after Preston Mutanga recreated the trailer for "Spider-Man:Across the Spider-Verse” shot for shot with Lego style animation, the studio was so impressed they reached out. He animated the Lego sequence in the final film despite being 14 years old at the time only after finishing schoolwork
XEwv6 TIL that Some U.S. States Can Charge "Open Murder" Against a Person and Determine Later What "Degree" of Homicide They Wish to Press