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TIL 96 percent of ancient redwoods, some of the tallest and oldest trees on the planet, have been cut down

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7VNZ TIL that Spielberg returned to college in 2002 to finish his film degree. When the assignment was to submit a sample of filmmaking proficiency, he submitted Schindler’s List
wL6YJ TIL of Salt-Rising Bread: a bread which replaces yeast with Clostridium Perfringens, a bacteria that is the 3rd most common cause of food poisoning in the US.
7rAkx TIL for the role of Fin Tutuola in the show Law and Order: SVU, when Ice-T asked Producer Dick Wolf how it was to be performed, he was told to "do what Ice-T would do if he were a cop."
d8JBK TIL while in heat a lioness can mate for three days straight, sometimes with multiple males, about once every 20-30 minutes (a rough estimate of 50+ times a day).
780KL TIL that all numbers are either odious or evil: in mathematics, if a number contains an even number of 1s when written in binary, it's called an "evil number", otherwise it's called an "odious number".