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TIL The mass of trees and plants comes mostly (95%) from carbon in the air, not from the soil. Through photosynthesis they extract carbon from CO2 and use it to build their structure and mass.

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7QDL TIL Survivors in the USS West Virginia during the bombing of Pearl Harbor survived for another 16 days after the event, trapped in the ship, until they died
j6LDv TIL that Rumiko Takahashi, the creator of Ranma 1/2 and Inuyasha, was knighted by France in 2023.
NX79M TIL Precursors to chewing gum date back 5,000 years with the first commercial chewing gum released in 1848. To sweeten these early gums chewers would repeatedly dip the gum in a plate of powdered sugar to reconstitute the sweetness while they chewed.
R7mQ7 TIL Fergie was not an original member of Black Eyed Peas. She replaced Kim Hill who left from growing concerns of objectification as the group was going mainstream in the early 2000s.
OoPXa TIL that rice paddies are only underwater because weeds can't grow there, and it does nothing to help the rice grow.