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TIL That the Smoky Mountains are home to a temperate rainforest on a section of the mountains near Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Worldwide, this is a very rare ecosystem that is not experienced by many other locations on earth.

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loXpA TIL political prisoners in China are being executed "on demand" in order to provide organs to recipients. One estimate suggests approximately 65,000 have been executed for their organs between 2000 and 2008. Median wait time for a kidney transplant: Canada - 6 years, UK - 3 years, China - 1 week.
44eX TIL that AIDS was originally called GRID, short for Gay Related Immune Deficiency
nWnAb TIL of Slaver ants - an entire category of ants who never work, and instead capture and enslave other ants as workers
WkVKd TIL after learning about rumors of there being an ultra-exclusive black card for elite customers, American Express decided to introduce one.
E1Gap TIL that the first Apple logo isn’t what you would think. Originally, it featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting beneath a tree, with an apple about to fall on his head. which read “Newton…A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought…alone”.