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TIL the goods and services provided by coral reefs are valued at $2.7 trillion a year.

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x8v5 TIL the beloved song, “This Land is Your Land” written by Woody Guthrie actually contains three more stanzas which completely changes the nature of the song to a more questionable and sinister look at American policies during the 1940’s.
loBm1 TIL The Indian village of Meghalaya, the wettest place on Earth, has trained branches of rubber trees to create natural bridges over rainy valleys.
lG6B TIL: Almost exclusively in Minnesota the game “Duck, Duck, Goose” is called “Duck, Duck, Grey Duck”
GBaG TIL that 18th Century voracious eater Tarrare was ejected from hospital after being suspected of eating a toddler.
oKOr TIL that during World War 1 America called sauerkraut Liberty Cabbage to avoid a German sounding name