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TIL that there are more trees on earth (3 trillion) than stars in the Milky Way (100-400 billion).

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7ryW7 TIL that the name "Ivan the Terrible" reflects the older English usage of terrible as in "inspiring fear or terror; dangerous; or powerful" and not the more modern connotations in English where terrible means "defective" or "evil".
DQ45p TIL that in 1939 Ernest Vincent Wright wrote and published a 50,000 word novel, 'Gadsby' which does not contain the letter 'e' . A warehouse containing most copies of the book burned down.
P17aZ TIL using the instructed amount of washing detergent leaves clothes dirtier
40j6 TIL that the Guinness World Records stopped awarding the fattest cats or any other animal to discourage deliberate overfeeding
M7k50 TIL that Iowa is the only state in the United States whose eastern and western borders are created entirely by rivers