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TIL Dante Alighieri author of The Divine Comedy died a few hours after writing the final lines of paradise the third section of The Divine Comedy

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a8Bj9 TIL the typical UFO/UAP being reported by the US military according to the Pentagon UFO Office is a White, Silver or Translucent Orb around 1-4 meters in size typically traveling between stationary or Mach 2 speeds with no thermal exhaust detected at 10k - 30k in altitude since 1996.
grggX TIL that the bacterium devastating millions of olive trees in Italy, causing over €5.5 billion in annual damages, has been traced back to a single infected coffee plant imported from Costa Rica in 2008
xW7g TIL that a recent educational experiment suggested that reading “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” increased children’s likelihood of lying. On the other hand, reading a book on George Washington and the cherry tree decreased this likelihood dramatically.
neVxo TIL that the average age of all gamers is 33, and the male to female gamer distribution is pretty even, at 54% Male and 46% Female
DQJ6v TIL the total population of the world’s great whales is worth over $1 trillion, largely due to the carbon they capture and the ecosystems they support, according to the IMF