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TIL There is a strong correlation between spending less on wedding and/or ring and lower divorce rates

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PynE TIL Earth’s temperatures are currently rising at least 10 times faster than at any time during the past 65 million years.
xVYG0 TIL about the Great Green Wall, an effort to plant trees to stop desertification in the Sahara that began in 2007. Ethiopia has planted over 5.5 billion seedling since.
AD5Qo TIL the Philippine eagle is the only bird of prey with blue-grey eyes
oJb8 TIL Wendy Carlos (who composed for Kubrick’s movies) built her own computer in 1953, 23 years before the Apple I. She was 14.
R7EL9 TIL Carmel, a city in Indiana, has the highest number of traffic roundabouts in the US. Since late 1990s the city has built 125 roundabouts.