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TIL Apple doesn't allow villains in movies to use iPhones as to not cast Apple products in a bad light.

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J1WZl TIL that hundreds of tree seeds went to the moon with the Apollo 14 mission, resulting in Moon Trees planted all around the country during the 1970s—few of which still stand today.
v7ex TIL At any time, it is estimated that there are some 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects alive.
d8RjZ TIL there is a famous Irish Dolphin called “Fungie the Dingle Dolphin” who has been seeking human contact since 1983 which is rare for wild Dolphins. He also possesses an extremely strange diet for a dolphin, consisting primarily of garfish and is the only known Dolphin to eat them
4XNjo TIL ornithologist Helen Hays has lived for six months of the year since 1969 on Great Gull Island (a remote, critical nesting area for migrating birds) to help restore the island's ecosystem for threatened terns. Due to her work on the island, the tern population was successfully recovered.
m10Wx TIL that there is a town in Upstate New York called Neversink, Ironically, the original Neversink was permanently flooded when the Neversink reservoir was built.