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TIL a man in Tennessee built a 10,000 square foot treehouse with 97 floors by himself over a span of 14 years and it’s open to the public for free.

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W5nB TIL that the Guinness Book of Records recognizes the presidential election of 1927 in Liberia as the most fraudulent election reported in history. Although there were only 15,000 registered voters in Liberia at the time, Charles D. B. King, received 234,000 votes and won.
p80V8 TIL DNA has a half-life of approximately 521 years, meaning that it would be broken down so much as to be useless after about 1 million years.
R5DLa TIL that Luis Alvarez, designed the implosion mechanism for the "Fat Boy" plutonium bomb also discovered the theory that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs
v1OOL TIL That the last time the US Government passed a budget on time was in 1996 (for FY 1997)
1aKMW TIL In 1161 the Bishop of Winchester was the largest brothel owner in the UK and his prostitutes were called the Winchester Geese.