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TIL just 14 wolves released in Yellowstone changed the landscape and course of rivers by killing deer, which allowed vegetation and soil to be less eroded.

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wGW7 TIL Genghis Kahn killed 40 million people during his conquest, enough to cool the planet. He removed 700 million pounds of carbon- roughly equivalent to the amount of carbon global society now produces annually from gasoline.
X007j TIL Mark Cuban founded a company called Cost Plus Drugs that delivers life-saving medications without price gouging for as little as 0.5% of their normal retail price.
vPPo4 TIL about the fake/real grape flavor dating back to the 1800’s
LXrm TIL when Quentin Roosevelt was shot down over France in WW1 the Germans buried him with military honors “because he was a gallant aviator, who died fighting bravely against odds and because he was the son of Colonel Teddy Roosevelt whom they esteemed as one of the greatest Americans”
LkOJr TIL a Saudi man was arrested for unknowingly buying and flying the LGBT flag. The man's child saw the flag online and thought it was pretty. The doctor (having never seen an LGBT flag) bought one and flew it over his house. Only after religious police arrested him did he learn what it represented.