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TIL that South Korea planted over 350 million trees in a massive reforestation program starting at the end of World War Two.

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4X5vw TIL that "Blue Blood" as a synonym for royalty, came from Spain following the Reconquista, in which some spanish nobles would show their pale skin, with blue veins showing, as proof that they had never mixed with the Moors who occupied Spain for centuries.
Np4J TIL that a blue whale is so large that its tongue weighs the same as an elephant and its heart weighs the same as a car.
rNL5o TIL it's not just on the books, juries have actually let murderers walk free when they felt it was justified, ex: Talaat Pasha's assasination
WRYX TIL Britney Spears’ Toxic sampled its famous hook from a 1981 Bollywood musical.
epZ0J TIL that a piano is a percussion, not string, instrument.