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TIL Bill Murray's sister Nancy Murray is a Dominican Nun who has a critically acclaimed traveling show about St. Catherine of Siena

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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’.
ANr0o TIL that the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse occurred in part because the structural engineering firm in charge of the project signed off on a design change without running or documenting updated design load calculations
YpvOA TIL Hunter S. Thompson ran for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado in 1970 on the promises of decriminalizing all drugs and renaming Aspen to "Fat City".
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