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TIL That Jimmy Fallon was in Band of Brothers. As I am currently rewatching band of Brothers after nearly a decade, I stumbled across a scene that had me shivering. At the end of episode 5, Jimmy Fallon appears as a courier that delivers material right before Easy Company enters Bastogne.

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6EWLm TIL that the oldest living tree, named "Methusela", is almost 5,000 years old and has been around longer than the Egyptian pyramids!
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jNbAR TIL of triplets Aliyah, Zarrea & Evan Medina from Massachusetts. They are a unique kind of triplets, with Aliyah & Zarrea as identical sisters & Evan their fraternal brother.
p8LOO TIL of Mathew Charles Lamb. After killing two people in a shooting spree, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He then joined the Rhodesian Army after his psychiatric treatment was complete.
rNXAw TIL about the Fallen Astronaut, a 3.5 in/8.9 cm aluminum sculpture. It is a stylized figure of an astronaut in a spacesuit, intended to commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who have died in the advancement of space exploration. It was placed on the Moon by the crew of Apollo 15 in 1971