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TIL the scientific name for the American Bison is “Bison bison”

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Je0v TIL that Theodore and Eleanor Roosevelt, when staying in the White House, reported sightings or a presence of Abraham Lincoln’s Ghost. Sightings have also been reported by Margaret Truman, Winston Churchill, and Henry Truman.
69YZ8 TIL Beatles super fans called Apple Scruffs had a goal of making the band's lives better by helping the security, helping bring food, etc
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x6E51 TIL that the average adult human brain can accumulate the equivalent of 2.5 million gigabytes of memory.