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TIL that the southern Appalachian Mountain region has areas that qualify as a temperate rainforest

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l07B TIL that Dolly Parton’s husband of 48 years runs an asphalt business in Tennessee and has only seen her perform live once.
JYBmj TIL that 98% of the marine fish found in the aquarium hobby cannot be bred on a commercial scale in captivity; they are instead stunned using cyanide poison to enable capture, a process which not only kills many of the fish caught this way, but also destroys a square yard of the worlds ailing reefs
9vb7 TIL the higher someone’s I.Q. the more likely they are to be sleep deprived.
Wk9J4 TIL 21 years ago Twenty people died when a United States Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler aircraft, while flying too low, against regulations, in order for the pilots to "have fun" and "take videos of the scenery", cut a cable supporting a gondola of an aerial tramway. The pilots faced no consequences.
n5Kb TIL That 1/3 of Russian soldiers in World War One were not issued rifles, and were told to pick up a weapon when one of their comrades were killed.