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TIL about the "Great Green Wall" an 8000km restoration project to fight desertification in Africa

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pY65N TIL CHEP started as an Australian Government initiative to reuse left over US Army pallets from WW2
grDJ8 TIL about Walter Duranty, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who was the New York Times' Moscow bureau chief from 1922-1936. There have been multiple attempts to strip the prize due to his failure to report on the Soviet Famine of 1930-33.
XEDMQ TIL the Hyena is NOT a canine species. Instead it's part of the feliform suborder and thus closer to a cat-like species.
0d41M TIL: There's a rare disorder called Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis, turning people's skin into tree-like bark with wart growths due to HPV. Also known as "Tree Man Illness," the disorder is inherited when an individual inherits one copy, from each parent, of a defective gene.
Y7YaZ TIL that there is a unit of time called the Planck. It is 1.35 x 10^-43 seconds in length. There are more of them in one second than in all the seconds in time since the Big Bang.