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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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kg7E TIL in the ‘60s and '70s, professional bowlers were international celebrities who made twice as much money as NFL stars
Q0bE TIL : The Movie Wargames (1983) coined the term ‘Firewall’ , ’“war dialing”, and “War Driving”
5VQpQ TIL beneath the Puerto Rico Trench is a mass so dense it has a gravitational pull on the surface of the ocean, causing it to dip somewhat. The Trench is also associated with the most negative gravity anomaly on earth, -380 milliGal, which indicates the presence of an active downward force.
9YnWm TIL that the Finnish Air Force still used the swastika as its emblem ever since it was founded back in 1918 long before it became known as a Nazi symbol and has now dropped it this year
YpM4G TIL Americans, who only had to pay for the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, struggled to pull together funding. Joseph Pulitzer started a crowdfunding campaign and gathered $100,000 from more than 120,000 contributors, most of whom gave less than $1.