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TIL there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way.

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yXRp TIL that tapes revealed that Enron shut down a power station in California and created an artificial power shortage, deliberately aggravating the 2001 California Energy Crisis, so they could raise prices and cost residents billions in surcharges.
oB6nE TIL Hyenas are genetically closer to cats than dogs
nWD49 TIL During the American Revolutionary era tar and feathering was used as a form of vigilante justice to punish British Loyalist traitors
neEZB TIL: Because of a botched surgery intended to repair a severely perforated eardrum, that actually caused permanent inner ear damage, Stephen Colbert wasn't able to scuba dive for a marine biology job he wanted which pushed him to comedy. The damage to his eardrum also left him deaf in his right ear.
1aJ5V TIL in the final stages of hypothermia, humans exhibit two strange behaviors; paradoxical undressing, in which a person will remove all their clothes despite being dangerously close to death, and a completely autonomous, instinctual burrowing behavior.