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

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R7Gy7 TIL George C. Parker, the conman who fraudulently "sold" the Brooklyn Bridge multiple times, dodged his first prison sentence by grabbing a sheriff's uniform and walking out of the courthouse
QJeYa TIL there are at least 27 methods for counting with fingers around the world. Luca Pacioli even devised a way to count up to 10,000 with both hands.
9Yplp TIL that when learning new phrases in a foreign language, hearing those phrases sung and then singing them has been shown to lead to better results than hearing them spoken normally and then repeating them the same way.
Egd6W TIL cicada wings shed water, dirt, and bacteria and are anti-reflective to avoid detection by predators using nanopillars 4000x thinner than human hair and waxy substances
Kdn4 TIL: Today I learned that the new British citizenship test demands knowledge of Monty Python and the Beatles