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TIL: Comic Sans was created for Microsoft Bob

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VM4e4 TIL that there are 3 trillion trees on Earth, which is more trees than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy and cells in the human brain.
p8PoZ TIL In Finland, city planners are known to visit parks immediately after the first snowfall, when the existing walking paths are not visible. People naturally choose desire paths, clearly marked by their footprints, which can be then used to guide the routing of new purpose-built paved paths.
y6Av TIL a Chiefs superfan known as “Helmet Man” was banned from attending games because he was part of the Witness Protection Program for being a witness in the 1993 WTC bombing.
P1kVE TIL in 2007, they interviewed Muri (the “I should buy a boat” cat)
lmXa TIL after Czech resistance assassinated brutal Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, the Czech town of Lidice was razed and nearly all of its citizens, pets and livestock were shot. In response to Hitler’s desire to wipe Lidice off the map, Venezuela, Brazil, Panama and Mexico renamed towns to Lidice.