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J1QpV TIL of the Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel, a plan to plant continent-wide wall of trees stretching from Djibouti, Djibouti to Dakar, Senegal. The goal is to combat desertification in the Sahel region and hold back the Sahara desert.
MeyVB TIL a shark at a New Zealand aquarium was discovered to be pregnant when another shark attacked her and 4 baby sharks emerged from the open wound. Staff were surprised and found 4 more babies in her. If she’d given birth at night, then her babies would have been eaten alive by other sharks.
E1kAw TIL that a Game Boy survived the fire caused by bombing in the gulf war
NN7P TIL that Tsar Peter the Great of Russia learned shipbuilding at a dock in Amsterdam after disguising himself as a common craftsman and worked on constructing the ships himself.
Zp9kQ TIL that Joseph Petrosino an NYPD officer, warned President McKinley that there was an assassination plot due to take place against him, in Buffalo New York. McKinley brushed off the warning, and was duly assassinated.