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TIL of Albino Redwoods - Unable to produce chlorophyll, it must join roots with another redwood to survive. Only 60 samples are known.

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E7mw TIL: William Wrigley Jr. originally started in the baking powder business. With his powder, he gave a free pack of his gum. He later abandoned the baking powder business when he learned that people were buying it just to get the gum.
VBXXB TIL of LaVere Redfield, an American multimillionaire who was discovered to be hoarding a massive collection of around 270k silver Morgan dollars and postage stamps in his basement during a robbery in 1952. Following his death in 1974, his heirs uncovered even more coins hidden, around 7.3 million.
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