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TIL that 85-90% of passengers that fall overboard on cruise ships perish.

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ZBMv TIL There are approximately 3.04 TRILLION trees on Earth. More than the number of stars and planets in the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies combined.
oBrEr TIL that on the island of Daphne Major in the Galapagos, scientists watched for the first time a new species form in the wild, it was a new bird species that evolved only within two generations.
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