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TIL about the Tree of One Hundred Horses, a massive chestnut tree that holds the world record for girth, clocking in at 190 feet in circumference—nearly the length of a hockey rink.

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5Nap TIL that Nas listed his daughter as an executive producer on his album Stillmatic so that she could always receive royalty checks from the album’s sales.
Me7aA TIL that when you lose 10 kg of fat, 8.4 kg is exhaled as CO2 and 1.6 kg is excreted as water. Most of the weight you lose exits your body through your lungs.
ywMV TIL- 62% of Americans have less than 1000 dollars in their savings account.
BrGdd TIL that the concept for the show Quantum Leap (traveling back to different moments in history) came from a discarded premise for "Galactica 1980", which would have seen Apollo traveling back to different spots in Earth's history to fix changes made by Baltar.
Q7rL TIL that Medicare fully covers dialysis (~80k/yr) and kidney transplants (~263k) but only covers three years of immunosuppressive drugs (~18k/yr). This creates a cycle in which patients can’t afford their medicine, the kidney fails, and the patient is put on dialysis - in need of another transplant.