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TIL US Senate Pages are not allowed to have cell phones or use the Internet for anything besides school

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R5vn9 TIL that Fordite, also known as Motor City agate, is a lapidarist term for polished pieces of finely-layered paint masses from automobile factories
1jV7 TIL A report found that, for every $1 invested in the US National Park Service, the American public receives $4 in economic value.
bomE TIL that C. S. Lewis (author of The Chronicles of Narnia series) was an adamant atheist, until attending Oxford, when his closest friend, J. R. R. Tolkien (author of the Lord of the Rings trilogy) convinced him to convert to Christianity.
e0vKE TIL "The Bare Necessities" From Disney's animated movie "The Jungle Book" got nominated for Best Original Song At the 1967 Oscars.
WkWP4 TIL that tree's secretly talk, share resources and steal from each other using a fungal network called the "Wood Wide Web".