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TIL that Shakespeare had Merlin delusions

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yQlyl TIL that almost a thousand years before the modern environmental movement, William the Conqueror established the system of "Forest Law", which operated outside of the Common Law in effort to protect game animals and their forest habitat from destruction.
wLZJM TIL in antartica, scientists recently found fossil fragments of 13 trees that are over 260 million years old, meaning that this forest was growing at the end of the Permian Period, before the first dinosaurs. At that time, Antarctica was still at the South pole
R7WEj TIL the massive changes in the population and wealth of Europe caused by the Black Death was one of the reasons the Renaissance happened.
4yvJ TIL Volkswagen paid a $120k fine to the EPA in 1973 for using “defeat devices” to disable pollution-control systems
oYPA TIL there’s a way to highly exaggerate microscopic vibrations on surfaces from any video, allowing you to see things like blood pulses in the face, sound affects on glass and even recreate the sounds that caused the vibrations.