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TIL there was a tree found at ground zero a month after 9/11 in the rubble with burned and cracked roots and branches nearly dead, New York Parks and Recreation nursed it back to health and planted it where the towers stood in 2010. Today it marks survival, resilience and rebirth

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RdVQ TIL That in 1983, an Israeli F-15 was able to be landed after a mid-air collision, which destroyed its right wing. After the incident, the F-15’s producers, McDonnell Douglas affirmed that it was impossible for such a landing to happen, but were corrected after receiving the photos of the event.
5YeQR TIL the youngest person to have a research paper published in a peer-reviewed medical journal is Emily Rosa (aged 9 at the time). Her paper set showed how the Human Energy Field and 'Therapeutic Touch' was largely quackery
X96X TIL that the only Americans with their own personal zip code are the President and Smokey Bear.
DYYr TIL Traditional cheese makers were so threatened by artificial cheese production that they tried to name it “Embalmed Cheese” to decrease sales. The US government had to step in, and the name was formally made “Processed Cheese” which we still use today.
7pMO TIL that (very) rough estimates suggest that Wikipedia contains about 4% of the extant sum of all human knowledge, with 5.6 million red links (and growing).