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TIL that Sweden is actually increasing forest biomass despite being the second largest exporter of paper in the world because they plant 3 trees for each 1 they cut down

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BgWgk TIL Vitamin B12 and many other compounds such as antibiotics, organic acids, amino acids, polysaccharides, and enzymes are produced via fermentation because synthesis would be too complex
GYNkg TIL Teotihuacan was the largest city anywhere in the Western Hemisphere before the 1400s. It had thousands of residential compounds and scores of pyramid-temples, comparable to the largest pyramids of Egypt. It contains a massive central road and buildings but oddly, no military structures
M74WA TIL that Australia had a large inland sea called the Eromanga Sea during the Cretaceous Period.
jDOM TIL a woman struck and killed a child on his bicycle with her SUV. She then sued the dead child for emotional distress caused by his “incompetent bicycling.”
61rY TIL the term “3 dog night” refers to a night so cold you needed to sleep with 3 dogs in your bed to keep warm