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Jul 23, 2020

TIL that for every child born or adopted in Wales, the Welsh government will plant a native Welsh broadleaf tree. The scheme is called Plant! – the Welsh word for children.

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Jul 22, 2020

TIL ecologist Suzanne Simard discovered that trees use underground fungi networks to communicate and share resources, uprooting the idea that nature constantly competes for survival.

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Jul 20, 2020

TIL dogs and cats are responsible for 25 to 30 percent of the environmental impact of meat consumption in the United States. That equates to roughly 64 million tons of carbon dioxide per year.

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Jul 17, 2020

TIL During the Great Depression, members of the Civilian Conservation Corps planted over 3 billion trees in the US in under ten years.

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Jul 07, 2020

TIL The legal battles over the "Monkey Selfie" ruined the photographers life to the point of making him drop photography to find work as a dog walker.

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May 25, 2020

TIL about Antinatalism a philosophy that argues that life is so painful that humans should not reproduce.

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May 14, 2020

TIL that the seventh most populous city in the world, Mumbai, also has one of the highest densities of leopards (41 leopards) in a forest inside the city and the leopard population saves Mumbai US$18,000 by keeping the stray dogs population in check.

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May 12, 2020

TIL: The River Thames is one of the cleanest Rivers in the world that flows through a major city, after being declared biologically dead 50 years ago

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May 09, 2020

TIL the Bopal Chemical Disaster in India, where a methyl-isocyanate leak (500 times deadlier than hydrogen cyanide) from a factory killed more than 8000 residents in one night. The MIC leak went undetected due to the factory's earlier removal of the alarm siren in order to not disturb its neighbours

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Apr 30, 2020

TIL Saran Wrap isn't as "clingy" is because it used to have a toxic chemical in it and they voluntarily removed it, costing them almost half their market share

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Apr 22, 2020

Today I learned that trees are able to communicate with other trees through chemical, hormonal and slow-pulsing electrical signals, and can communicate through the air with pheromones and other scents. They will also help other struggling trees by sending them nutrients through their roots.

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Apr 18, 2020

TIL that Bikini atoll, the place where Bikini Bottom was named after, was declared a nuclear wasteland after the US dropped 23 bombs in the 1950s. However scientists have found thriving life in the center of it all, with evidence that life restarted a mere 10 years after the bombings.

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Apr 03, 2020

TIL in 2012, a Montana man attempting a Bigfoot hoax dressed in a camouflage sniper suit and walked down an interstate highway at night. He was struck by two cars in quick succession, the drivers unable to see him because of his camouflage suit.

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Mar 19, 2020

TIL that sled dogs can run without getting tired because their bodies can directly burn fat and protein for energy whereas other animals need carbs to do so.

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Mar 04, 2020

TIL that Palm oil producers are wiping out orangutans – despite multinationals’ promises

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Feb 22, 2020

TIL scientists discovered in Brazil a 3,000 year old termite nation as big as the UK. To build it, the termites moved an amount of soil equivalent to building 4,000 Great Pyramids of Giza

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Feb 13, 2020

TIL that in China, 300 Million people suffer from bacterial diarrhea every year from drinking contaminated water. 40% of the rivers do not meet safety standards and 20% are so polluted that they aren't safe to be touched.

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Dec 28, 2019

TIL Spiders can sense electrical currents in the air and use them to launch themselves upward, traveling up to hundreds of miles. Occasionally a “mass ballooning” occurs, where so many spiders descend from the sky it looks like snow

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Dec 26, 2019

TIL In 2009, two scientists from the University of Oxford spent three years, and £300K of taxpayer dollars, to determine if ducks liked water. They discovered that they do, in fact, like water.

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Dec 13, 2019

TIL The deepest part of our oceans, the region from below 6000 km to the very bottom of the deepest sea trench, is known as the Hadal zone, named after Hades, the underworld of Greek mythology. More people have been to the moon than have explored the Hadal deep.

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