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TIL, there is a grove of Aspen trees in Utah that is estimated to be 80,000 years old!

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nYEd TIL there’s a counterargument to the use of Occam’s razor in the medical profession called Hickam’s dictum. It states that “patients can have as many diseases as they damn well please.”
VM87G TIL the record for fastest NYC - LA "Cannonball Run" drive was done in a 2016 Audi S6 modified to mimic a Ford Taurus and add a 45-gallon trunk-mounted fuel cell. The drive was done by Arne Toman and Doug Tabbutt in 25 hrs, 39 min. with average speed of 112 mph and top speed of 175.
KOVJQ TIL The Walt Disney Company is the second largest consumer of explosive devices, only behind the U.S. Department of Defense.
4gw6 TIL Dick Cheney Flunked out of Yale University Twice
rRWpe Today I learned that there are brown dwarf stars which emit little to no visible light and can be as cold as - 55° to 8° F. They can be between 13 and 80 times the mass of Jupiter and fuse Lithium instead of Hydrogen.