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TIL of the Rainforest Trust, which buys acres of forest using donations and permanently protects them. They have already protected 11,500,000 acres.

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WKMN TIL Around the 16th century, there was a chamber in the fortress of Biertan (Romania) where all the couples that wanted to divorce were forced to live with only one item of everything: one bed, one spoon, one chair, etc. before breaking up. Only one couple in 300 years ended up divorcing.
rNRYe TIL Counterfeit detector pens used in grocery stores contain an iodine solution that reacts with the starch in wood-based paper to create a black stain. When the solution is applied to the fiber-based paper used in real bills, no discoloration occurs.
aw7LJ TIL that nearly 70 years after Pearl Harbor, the USS Arizona continues to leak up to 9 quarts of oil each day.
e9x4 TIL That NY City used to use hollowed out trees as water mains in the early 19th Century. A working example was still connected to the city water lines as late as 2006
LQEG9 TIL In US, a radioactive source is lost, stolen, or missing about once a day and become "orphan sources."