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TIL Bishop Budde personally brought Matthew Shepard to be interred at the Washington National Cathedral, after finding out his parents couldn’t have a proper funeral for him due to the extreme violence aimed at them after his horrific murder. He is resting at the same location as Hellen Keller.

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9wAmB TIL Flowers, pinecones, shells, fruits, hurricanes and even spiral galaxies, all exhibit the Fibonacci sequence. Every number in the sequence is generated by adding together the two previous numbers. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21…etc
gMvQ7 TIL that if we keep our current population growth of 1.11%, in just 8604 years we would have used up all the particles in the entire observable universe just to make human bodies
5VmpD TIL that there is a tree species that is able to 'walk' by changing its old roots to new ones.
PYAmg TIL that Colonel Sanders was highly critical of KFC, calling it "a damn fried doughball stuck on some chicken" and "God-damned slop," while denouncing the gravy as "horrible." At times he'd surprise enter a KFC and throw the food on the floor if in disgust.
v1yvr TIL that the Norweigan resistance during WW2, after having their entire sardine catch requisitioned by the Nazis, took revenge by spiking the sardines with croton oil which is an extremely powerful laxative. Britain was so impressed by this that they followed suit by also spiking German supplies