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TIL the bald eagle hasn’t been considered an endangered species since 2007.

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VoPk TIL that in 1861 Francis Key Howard wrote an editorial about President Lincoln’s suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus. He was subsequently imprisoned and held without trial for two years at Fort McHenry, where his grandfather Francis Scott Key wrote The Star Spangled Banner during the War of 1812
8owL TIL 47,000 Quaking Aspen trees in the Wasatch Mountains, Utah, United States, have been shown to be a single clone connected by the root system. It is sometimes considered the world’s largest organism by mass, covering 106 acres
gVkA TIL that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, helped get two falsely accused men out of prison after solving their previously closed cases.
0dWBp TIL seven kings have ruled Belgium since the splitting from The Netherlands in 1831. The first six kings married women from other countries. Current King Phillipe is the first to marry a native born Belgian. Queen Mathilde has multiple degrees and speaks six languages.
kO1Q7 TIL of the 121 songs Billy Joel recorded, 33 (27%) of them were top 40 hits.