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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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d8G67 TIL: Dennis Rodman only has 28 siblings, previously thought to be 46, according to his father Philander.
0QkN TIL the False Positive Paradox describes a situation where a “highly accurate” test is worthless if the testing condition is rare enough. Example: If 10 people in a city of 20 million are “bad guys” and a surveillance program identifies them with 99% accuracy, then 99.995% of positives will be false
XErpj TIL a Canadian university student wore the same pair of $165 Levi jeans for 330 days straight, without washing them. He and his professor found no measurable difference in bacterial growth on the jeans from wearing them for 15+ months straight compared to just 13 days.
oxw8 TIL that cursive handwriting has already been removed from the curricula of 41 states.
4XxYR TIL in 2017 Offspring's Vocalist Dexter Holland Finished his Ph.D in molecular biology, Thesis on HIV Research: “I am interested in virology and wanted to contribute in some small way to the knowledge which has been learned about HIV and AIDS. This terrible disease remains a worldwide epidemic”