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TIL: Wikileaks leaked Manning’s identity, which is how “ex-hacker” Lamo, found him and ultimately turned him in

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X0w76 TIL that in 2018, an American half-pipe skier qualified for the Olympics despite minimal experience. Olympic requirements stated that an athlete needed to place in the top 30 at multiple events. She simply sought out events with fewer than 30 participants, showed up, and skied down without falling.
E141o TIL the oldest living organism is called Pando and is 80,000 years old, it looks like a forest but is actually one tree covering over 100 acres and...its dying.
MljV TIL as of 2011, there are more barrels of bourbon aging in the state of Kentucky (4.7 million) than there are people who live there (4.3 million).
pYd0b TIL 47% of bald eagles and 46% of golden eagles show signs of lead poisoning. Sources of lead into the ecosystem include bullets and fishing tackles.
QpW9 TIL… there is a banana plantation in Iceland, just 177 miles from the Arctic Circle