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TIL an iron pillar in Delhi(made of 98% wrought iron) has stood for at least 1600 years without rusting or corroding.

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Oo4xY TIL about rangeomorphs. Ancient organisms that lived before the Cambrian Explosion that are the only known organisms to reproduce in geometrical patterns called fractals.
69b4X TIL the steelpan, which originated in Trinidad and Tobago, now appears on its official coat of arms.
yQpBe TIL After Ford left the White House in 1977, he privately justified his pardon of Nixon by carrying in his wallet a portion of the text of Burdick v. United States, a Supreme Court decision which states that a pardon carries an imputation of guilt and that acceptance carries a confession of guilt.
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