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TIL US cities are losing 36 million trees a year

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Memj7 TIL when a ptition for the decrimnalization of all consensual relations between adults and minors below the age of fifteen was addressed to the French parliment in 1977, it was signed by such intellectuals as Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes and Simone de Beauvoir.
jEgX TIL Aerosmith made more money from Guitar Hero: Aerosmith than any one of their albums.
6YdJ TIL when the Coronado US Navy Base was completed in 1970, it featured four L-shaped buildings, forming a swastika. The Navy was eventually forced to budget $600,000 in 2008 to camouflage the site after aerial images of the base from Google Earth began circulating online.
5VxNP TIL that on three occasions between 1922 and 1933, the Coca-Cola Company was offered the opportunity to purchase the Pepsi-Cola Company, which it declined on each occasion.
Ednx TIL During the Watchman opening credits, Nite Owl I saved Thomas and Martha Wayne (Bruce Wayne’s parents), thus preventing the need for Batman to exist in that universe.