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TIL police have been called to investigate multiple skeletons discovered hidden in Odd Fellows lodges which were used in the secret society’s initiation rituals.

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9w89Q TIL California is home to the tallest living object in the world. It’s a redwood tree named Hyperion that is 379.7 feet high.
o6pY TIL a company called What3Words created a grid of 54 trillion 3x3 meter squares given a 3 word address designation covering the globe. It’s used as a work around for parts of the world with tricky or no addresses and can be used to specify which door in a building a package should be sent to.
JY6b8 TIL that ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ refers not to depth, but distance travelled whilst submerged
7rpnP TIL Napoleon struggled to learn English, and some of his attempts were kept: "Since sixt week j learn the Englich and j do not any progress."
vGJ8 TIL in 1999 in a civil case conducted by the King family, the jury ruled that Martin Luther King Jr. had been a victim of assassination by a conspiracy involving the Memphis police and as well as federal agencies.