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TIL that scientists created a completely enclosed, artificial environment called Biosphere 2 and made one mistake that caused all the trees to fall down before maturation: there was no wind so trees failed to develop stress wood, which is necessary for them to stand.

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YNoB TIL Young elephants in Uganda ‘appear’ to have engaged in revenge attacks on villages, a study mentioned suggests 'a lack of older bulls to lead by example had created gangs of aggressive young males with a penchant for violence towards each other and other species’
5VMXr TIL that the maps, that William Clarke made during his famous 1803 expedition with Meriwether Lewis were done with such accuracy that they were only off by 40 miles from his starting point in Camp River Dubois in Illinois to the Pacific Ocean.
PYAmg TIL that Colonel Sanders was highly critical of KFC, calling it "a damn fried doughball stuck on some chicken" and "God-damned slop," while denouncing the gravy as "horrible." At times he'd surprise enter a KFC and throw the food on the floor if in disgust.
bjo7 TIL that the average Cheetah’s stride when it is running full speed is around 21 feet in length.
W7QDB TIL about Juliane Koepcke. At age 17 she survived alone 11 days in a rainforest, becoming the only survivor of the LANSA 508 crash. The plane was struck by lightning & broke apart in flight scattering more than a dozen passengers. Her unorthodox education allowed her to survive the hard journey out.