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TIL of Thimmamma Marrimanu a 550 year old banyan tree in India with a canopy of 4.721 acres

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E11Vp If you leave your body to science, you may also be donating to commerce: Cadavers and body parts are sold in a thriving, unregulated market where abuses abound.
N7oKM TIL in 2001, while performing the song "Two Step," Dave Matthews sang the words "Let it rain" and immediately the crowd was poured on by a violent rain and hail storm, which did not stop until the song concluded. This performance has now been called "Two Step in the Rain."
MKVm TIL that the Dothraki and Valyrian languages in A Game of Thrones are heard by more people than Welsh, Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic combined.
J88j TIL “Bill Nye the Science Guy” was cancelled after 20 years because due to “Hollywood accounting” the producers had never shown a profit
Wv0N TIL that in ancient China, an emperor’s last line of defense was a small Pekingese dog literally hidden up his sleeve, that would viciously attack on command.