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TIL Lahaina, Maui's massive, famous banyan tree actually survived the wildfires that ravaged the Western side of the Hawaiian island last year

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ADbRa TIL the US Air Force had a special forces unit of weather men.
awvkA TIL that a high school girl became the first person to fold a paper in half 12 times. She also derived the equation describing the limit of paper folding. No theoretical limit exists but the thickness of a paper folded 103 times in half would exceed the size of the known universe
KOVXa TIL though distilled water has a pH of 7 immediately after distillation, it becomes slightly acidic with a pH of 5.8 some time after distillation because it absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
8NVa TIL Netflix funded $246,664 to approve Prop 47, which “Reduces simple drug possession and theft-related sentences to misdemeanors and directs financial savings to substance abuse programs, K-12 education, and trauma recovery services for crime victims.”
4XaLN TIL that human cells contain little massage chambers that gently nudge proteins back into the correct shape after they are damaged