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TIL that George H.W. Bush is the longest living president in US history

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6E8BW TIL of the Smokey Bear Effect, and how the stringent prevention of wildfires by the U.S. Forest Service has led to "megafires" which are much more destructive and even fatal.
RLm7 TIL that estimates place John D. Rockefeller’s personal net worth in today’s money at somewhere between $392,000,000,000 and $663,400,000,000.
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