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TIL: the sun rotates at different speeds by latitude because it's a gas ball

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VMZrD TIL Germany has 90 billion trees
7JWL TIL of the most isolated tree, Arbre du Ténéré, was 249 miles from any other tree (and far from other landmarks) yet was still managed to be hit and killed by a drunk truck driver in 1973.
GYn9N TIL that the musician Moby's great great great uncle, Herman Melville, wrote Moby Dick.
kmZ4 TIL that black swans are an actual type of swan, not just a rare color variant
M7mAb TIL Fidel Castro has long tried to breed a “super cow” that would give much more milk than ordinary cows. And one day the Cuban scientists succeeded. It was immediately dubbed a miracle of socialism, and after death, Ubre Blanca was even honored with a monument