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TIL the Hindenburg disaster had more survivors than it had fatalities with 62/97 passengers surviving

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GA46Q TIL that the longest-serving Prime Minister of Canada claimed to have communicated with Leonardo da Vinci, Wilfrid Laurier, his dead mother, his grandfather, and several of his dead dogs, as well as the spirit of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
j6wWE TIL a Fir Tree once grew inside a man’s lung.
46Lg TIL The oldest known living organism is a 80,000 year old tree that looks like an entire forest!
wLvx6 TIL the San Diego Zoo Animals & Plants is the only zoo outside of Australia to have Platypuses. When they were sent from Australia, in 2019, it was the first time in 50 years that Platypuses had been cared for outside of Australia.
4keKo TIL: In 2023, the St. Hubert restaurant chain in eastern Canada implemented measures to make their restaurants more welcoming to autistic people by allowing customers to request sensory accomodations in advance.