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TIL The survival rate in plane crashes is 95.7 percent!

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wo0oM TIL The mass of trees and plants comes mostly (95%) from carbon in the air, not from the soil. Through photosynthesis they extract carbon from CO2 and use it to build their structure and mass.
MwXa TIL despite several ludicrous rumors saying he had died from a heroin overdose, been hit by a car, and even been replaced with a doppelgänger, Steve from Blue’s Clues left the show simply because he was going bald.
x6ENo TIL the man who eats practically only Big Macs featured in ‘Supersize me’ has a problem with his tastebuds and often doesn’t even taste the sandwiches
awPVA TIL that British lawyers, judges, and some roles of parliament still wear old-timey white wigs
j4kp TIL that Mark Haub, a professor at Kansas State University, went on a “convenience store” diet which mainly consisted of Twinkies, Oreos, and Doritos to demonstrate that counting calories is what matters most in weight loss, not the nutritional value in food. He lost 27 pounds in only two months.