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TIL The World’s Biggest Organism is actually a giant fungus and not an Aspen Tree.

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LkZO0 TIL that only one US president (Franklin D Roosevelt) has ever been inaugurated 4 times. Shortly afterwards, the 22nd Amendment was ratified, limiting presidents to two terms. Roosevelt died 82 days into his final term.
YWld TIL Anderson Cooper spent two summers as an intern at the CIA
b9neE TIL that the number 8 is such a lucky number in China that the Chinese government scheduled the Beijing Olympics to begin 8 seconds after 8:08 on 8/8/2008.
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Yp7VB TIL "Javanese princess" and exotic dancer Mata Hari was a Dutch-born WW1 spy and double-agent, convicted of spying for Germany in France and executed by firing squad.