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TIL there’s a tree called the “Tree of Life” in Bahrain that grows alone in the desert with no water source, surviving in an extremely harsh environment for over 400 years.

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ggLy TIL that Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, of TLC, was in a car accident that killed a young boy, Bayron Lopez. She mourned the boy and felt that death “made a mistake” due to their similar last names and it was her that was supposed to die. Two weeks later she died in another car accident.
R7P7l TIL events like earthquakes create differences between GMT and UTC that require the introduction of Leap Seconds to keep them in sync, the last one being Dec 31 2016.
9w4pD TIL about the Welsh Christmas tradition Mari Lwyd, which entails the use of a horse's skull mounted on a pole and carried by an individual hidden under a sackcloth, requesting (by singing) to get into people’s houses in order to get food and drinks
yk0v TIL (Monty Python member) Graham Chapman’s last words were “Sorry for saying fuck”
vPNgx TIL that because of its strategic importance and impregnable position during the Napoleonic Wars, the Diamond Rock, off the coast of Martinique, was considered a warship by the British Admiralty, which conferred on it the title of HMS Diamond Rock, turning the rock into a stone frigate.