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TIL using data from Toronto, researchers found having more trees on your block has health benefits akin to $10,000 raise or being seven years younger.

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Yp6jW TIL The Internet was not created by Boomers, it was created in the 1960s by a professor named Leonard Kleinrock who was born in the middle of the Great Depression in 1934.
epgEn TIL In 1989, Pastor Jack Hyles told a church member to start living in his basement alone and pray against all the sin he saw around him, while secretly having an affair with the man's wife upstairs. When the member complained, Hyles built him a backyard bedroom, and the situation lasted 12 years.
xRPD TIL that when Bonnie and Clyde were killed in an ambush exactly 83 years ago, locals rushed to collect souvenirs from the bodies - including locks of bloody hair, shell casings, and (unsuccessfully) Clyde’s ear.
ANrBB TIL that more than 16 million official U.S. military personnel records were destroyed when the sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center caught fire in 1973. The archive did not have a sprinkler system, smoke detectors, or firewalls
9BOQ TIL anyone aged 16 or older can use the Library of Congress