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TIL the English word for Trombone used to be Sackbut

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neaPo TIL about the War of the Heavenly Horses, in which China fought Greeks in Central Asia because the Chinese wanted Greek horses.
JYPLv TIL China has planted over 500 thousand square kilometers of forest since 1978 to combat the expansion of the Gobi Desert making it the largest forest plantation in the world. It’s expected to reach 4,500 km by 2050
xVJn0 TIL There are over 400 million ways of delivering checkmate in the first 5 moves of a chess game.
4jl5 TIL that the CIA conducted experiments on French citizens during the 50’s that involved spraying LSD onto unsuspecting towns. Resulting in numerous injuries and deaths.
v1jeR TIL that over 108 billion people have lived on the Earth and today's population of 7.5 billion represents 7% of humans that have ever lived.