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TIL the largest rose tree in the world, located in Tombstone, Arizona, was planted in 1885 and now covers 5000 square feet and has a trunk that is 14 feet in diameter

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awVyb TIL there is an elephant named Koshik who spent much of his youth at Everland Zoo in South Korea where he learned to speak 5 words of Korean due to the fact he lacked social interactions with his own species and was lonely.
xVBlg TIL-The wife of Woodrow Wilson, Edith Wilson became, just for over a year, acting president of the United States Of America after her husband had a stroke at the white house in October 1919, though she was selfish for putting herself before the government, she was still the first female president.
e05JD TIL that George Lucas wanted the final trilogy to take place in a microbiotic world. It would be shown that creatures called Whills are actually what use the Force and that Jedi only communicate with Whills via their midi-chlorians. His vision for Star Wars was to teach appreciation for ecosystems.
VN6D TIL to help support his family, Shia LaBeouf would dress up like a clown and sell hot dogs in the park across the sreet from his family’s apartment.
mZOx TIL Zach Galifianakis smoked weed on national television