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TIL that the Library of Congress archives all tweets and has collected over 170 billion tweets

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V94B TIL Tolkien didn’t mean to change the spelling of “Dwarfs” to “Dwarves”. He said it was a mistake that neither him nor his editors spotted.
nr1W TIL Elephants are Evolving to Lose Their Tusks to Avoid Poachers
kGW7 TIL a 20-year old anonymous British man from Birmingham dresses up as Spider Man in the night to help homeless people - by buying them food from the supermarket.
d8QLZ TIL the red grapefruit comes from a 1950s gov nuclear program called "Atoms for Peace" where they would mutate crops with radioactive material. In these "Gamma Gardens" ones grown close to the radioactive source died, but ones farther away turned red
5VWKD TIL that the English town of Washington, Tyne and Wear celebrates the Fourth of July as it's the ancestral home of the Washington family