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TIL: Why George Washington's Statue in London Doesn't Touch British Soil

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od6A TIL the oldest living tree is a Norway Spruce that is 9,550 years old, which makes it roughly 3,500 years older than the invention of writing.
kmbm TIL employees of Disney World and Disneyland were prohibited from having mustaches, beards and goatees for nearly 50 years until the ban was lifted in 2012. Soul patches are still banned.
R5pn9 TIL that the Peacock Mantis Shrimp can deliver punches at speeds of up to 80 km/h
mk8E TIL that Lumber Liquidators, the USA’s largest hardwood flooring company, gets most of their wood from illegal sources in Russia that support organized crime and destroy the habitat of the Siberian Tiger
P9Kw TIL: William Ellison (1790 – 1861), a freed slave, became a wealthy plantation owner, supported the Confederate States of America and held 60 of his own slaves