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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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v4xK TIL before 1939 in Ireland, if a Guinness brewer wished to marry a Catholic, his resignation was requested.
XQXP TIL The movie Waterloo included 15,000 Soviet foot soldiers and 2, 000 cavalrymen as extras. And to recreate the battlefield , the Russians bulldozed two hills, laid five miles of roads, transplanted 5,000 trees, sowed fields of rye, barley and wildflowers and reconstructed four historic buildings.
OGAva TIL that John Byrne said that he “unconsciously lifted” the story of the X-Men comic “Days of Future Past” from the plot of the 1972 Doctor Who serial “Day of the Daleks”.
jNRQa TIL that cutting down a cactus in Arizona is similar to cutting down a protected tree species, and can land the perpetrator up to 25 years in jail.
8aWvG TIL in 1984 NASA crashed a fully fueled Boeing passenger jet, with crash dummies as passengers and pilots into the Mojave desert. The crash was filmed from multiple angles at high speed in 16MM film. The knowledge gained from this test lead to major changes in airline flight safety standards.