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TIL that over 30 million Facebook accounts belong to dead people

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RNe1 TIL The U.S. Founding Fathers were against Political Parties, and thought they would lead to competition for power, instead of making decisions for the people.
4kXxX TIL NASA logo merchandise has been seeing growing demand since 2017, when Coach asked permission to use NASA’s 1970s-designed, retro red logo type for its collection and then approval requests doubled. NASA doesn’t make a cent off merchandise bearing its name
YLdG TIL in 1946, during a land survey of Sichuan province in China, a forester encountered a tree he’d never seen before, so took a sample. He came to find it was as yet unknown to science, only previously existing as a fossil. It came to be known as the ‘Dawn Redwood’.
p8W68 TIL that a man, Tommie Woodward, was killed by an alligator after yelling "Fuck that alligator" and jumping into the water nearby. Woodward, who was drinking in an outdoor bar, had been warned not to enter the water because of the beast. There were also signs that warned of alligator attacks.
AMK4 TIL that there is a specific order to adjectives in English. This is why we say ‘big red teapot’ and not 'red big teapot.’