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TIL that there is a tree that legally "owns itself" and the land within 8 feet of the tree

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6JX7 TIL of the Horseshoe Theory. The idea is that the political spectrum isn’t a line, it’s more of a horseshoe shape. The extreme ends of the left and right are more similar to each other than moderate left and moderate right.
jGjj TIL Thomas Jefferson cut and pasted from a King James Bible in order to make a condensed version that included the philosophy of Christ the man, with no supernatural events included.
VBAkG TIL the earliest known worked wooden implement is a spear approximately 400,000 years old found in Clacton-on-Sea, England
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9YALB TIL the voice actors of Mickey and Minnie Mouse were married in real life