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TIL that There are more trees on Earth than Stars in the Milky Way

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VPok TIL of ‘Dublin’s Pintmen’. Known to drink around 30 pints in a day, and according to a book on Irish pub law - 'Pintmen exude a sort of spiritual aura when in union with their pint. An ethereal look can be seen in their eyes as they are transported beyond spatial and temporal bounds.’
jWnM TIL The Great Wall of China is being stolen brick-by-brick by locals to build houses and also by visitors as souvenirs.
7rGoO TIL Switzerland had enough nuclear fallout shelters to preserve it's entire population
YkrG TIL: Lyndon B. Johnson called his penis “Jumbo”, and would occassionally not zip up and ask a colleague if they had seen anything as big as his penis.
R7wr9 TIL In 1941, some Soviet tanks were so superior to German ones, that a single KV tank stalled the German advance for a full day while being attacked by a variety of anti-tank weapons and was overrun only because it finally ran out of ammunition