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TIL there are more trees on our planet than stars in the Milky Way

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yQM0p TIL The word 'zombie' is never spoken in Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Romero himself didn't initially consider the antagonists in the film to be zombies, later saying "when I made the first film ... To me, zombies were still those boys in the Caribbean doing the wetwork for [Bela] Lugosi."
l7ODA TIL Conan O'Brien is spelled O'Brien, and not O'Brian.
P15ve TIL During World War II, a Pennsylvania dentist proposed to President Roosevelt to bomb Japan with timed explosives attached to thousands of bats.
Ypkrr TIL that Kirk Kerkorian, the richest person in Los Angeles, has dispensed more than $200 million and a school, and he has never allowed anything to be named in his honor
e051L TIL the Archbishop of Manila from 1974-2003 was called Cardinal Sin.