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TIL there is a search engine that plants a tree everytime you use it.

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6kJX TIL that during the rebuild of the World Trade Centre, a 30-min lunch break actually ran much longer as workers had to wait for elevators to ferry them up and down. To accommodate these workers, Subway created a mobile restaurant that moved up the building as they finished each floor.
BrG9e TIL in 2017, Courtney Dauwalter won the Moab 240, a 238-mile race in 57 hours with a one minute nap, beating the next competitor by 10 hours.
wbG7 TIL that prior to D-Day, the largest naval landing in world history was Caesar’s invasion of Britain in 54 BC.
VM6A8 TIL that in 430 B.C.: Athens, the earliest recorded pandemic happened during the Peloponnesian War. After the disease passed through Libya, Ethiopia and Egypt, it crossed the Athenian walls as the Spartans laid siege. As much as two-thirds of the population died.
vDNR TIL the average pencil holds enough graphite to draw a line about 35 miles long or to write roughly 45,000 words