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TIL An Indian man single-handedly planted a 1,360-acre forest

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v1N5R TIL sugar is an effective treatment when applied topically to antibiotic resistant MrSA
j6Vda TIL In Washington State (and likely others) teachers are exempt employees and can legally be paid a salary of $0.00 per year.
X0GJQ TIL that Marie Curie was a cougar, almost costing her her second Nobel Prize
Y7ReA Today I learned that in Japanese zoos, zookeepers dress as tigers as training for zoo escapes
BrPnW TIL in 1963 Italian engineers underestimated the effects of a controlled landslide they’d planned, resulting in a shockwave 2x the intensity of Hiroshima, instantly pulverizing thousands of people & causing a 820ft tsunami to travel down a mountain, turning the town beneath to a “large muddy crater”