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TIL the oldest tree in the world, a Great Basin bristlecone pine, is about to turn an amazing 4,847-years-old. “Methuselah,” is located somewhere in California's Inyo National Forest. But beyond that, its exact location remains a protected government secret.

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xxwk TIL of Jack Whittaker, who won the largest jackpot in history and donated much of his winnings, before a string of horrible luck. He was robbed, lost his wife to divorce and his granddaughter and daughter to suicide. He later said that winning the lottery was the worst thing to ever happen to him.
M7eDb TIL that wearing glasses actually increases a political candidate's electoral success, despite many politicians avoiding them as they think it makes them look less attractive.
9wrlG TIL, all humans are born as arseholes. Being deuterostomes, the anus develops before the mouth.
b9mOp TIL that the first recorded use of Forensic Entomology was by Chinese detective in 1200s AD. In a murder investigation in a village, detective Song Ci put every scythe in the village for inspection and found the culprit when flies- attracted to trace amounts of blood- kept landing on his scythe.
jNw6n TIL Around 50% of the protein you consume comes from the Haber-Bosch process. Without this process, we would've never been able to maintain our current population's food intake.