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TIL in the Ecuadorian Rain Forest trees have been discovered that can “walk” up to 20 meters in a year

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Yp5KZ TIL that Sir Muhammad Mahabat Khan III, the Maharaja of Junagadh (1900-1959), owned 800 dogs, each with its own room, a telephone, and a servant. He had his liveried staff dress his dogs in formal evening suits, mount them on rickshaws, and drive them. When a dog died, state mourning was declared
OokD1 TIL The Apollo 10 crew tested the procedures for the Apollo 11 mission, including a descent in the Lunar Module. However, NASA reduced the amount of fuel in the lander to keep the two astronauts from being tempted to stray from their mission and steal the first moon landing.
nWvNB TIL that the first recorded organism to reproduce sexually is a red algae called “Bangiomorpha pubescens” found in 1.2 billion-year-old rock deposits.
0daRL TIL that a ship's cat known as "Unsinkable Sam", survived the sinking of three ships in 1941 - the German battleship Bismarck, the British destroyer HMS Cossack and the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.
pYy7Q TIL about the Dyatlov Pass incident- A mysterious event where nine Russian hikers died in the Ural Mountains in 1959 under unexplained and bizarre circumstances, sparking decades of conspiracy theories.