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Today I learned crazy vocabulary from this young kid

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NXxr1 TIL the father of Stephen Paddock, the deadliest mass shooter in US history, was a bank robber who was on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list from 1969 to 1977.
wGP7 TIL No existing species of tree can grow higher than 130 meters (427 feet) as it is physically impossible for the water to rise higher due to pressure.
6EZ7X TIL The cliché "It was a dark and stormy night" originally opened a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, about a highwayman sentenced to death by a judge who turns out to be his father. Bulwer-Lytton infamously convinced Dickens to change "Great Expectations" to give it a more conventional "happy" ending.
N7J5Q TIL that Roald Dahl was originally going to write about a giant cherry in James in the Giant Peach, but changed it to a peach because a peach is "prettier, bigger and squishier than a cherry."
Z4BG TIL Montpelier, Vermont is the only state capital without a McDonald’s, Burger King, or Walmart