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TIL that Belarus is the only country where Opera is the most used web browser

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D1XKj TIL that the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Devanagari, Thai, Armenian, Mongolian, Hebrew, and Tibetan writing systems (among others) are all descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs.
rPYe TIL of “aerial reforestation” - a process whereby conical canisters which contain a seedling packed in soil and nutrients are dropped from a plane. They could drop as many as 100,000 saplings in a single flight. The system could plant as many as a million trees in one day.
QJVVX TIL The oldest UK law dates back to 1267 AD (The Statute of Marlborough)
W76bL TIL dry pet food became popular during WW2 because canned (tin) foods became rationed
d854E TIL that in 2006, a woman farted on a plane and tried to cover up the smell by lighting matches, causing an emergency landing.