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TIL the tallest tree in the world, the largest tree in the world (by volume) and the oldest tree in the world (non-clonal) are all in California.

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aaR9 TIL George Orwell worked writing propaganda during World War II, and the experience helped shape his novel 1984
GA604 TIL about the Stambovsky v. Ackley case. The New York Supreme Court ruled that a seller must disclose that a house has a reputation for being haunted because such a reputation may impair the value of the house. The Ackleys claimed to see ghosts of a 1750s couple and a American Revolution lieutenant.
rm11 TIL that the filming of The Godfather was disrupted by actual Mafia member Joe Colombo. Producer Al Ruddy met with him and reviewed the script, striking the word “Mafia” completely from the movie. Colombo and his pals also managed to elbow their way into casting and ended up as extras in the film.
M7O18 TIL about Marion Stokes a Philadelphia woman who compulsively recorded and stored over 40,000 VHS tapes of news broadcasts between 1979 and 2012
E6o0 TIL Computers can’t generate true random numbers (without measuring external physical phenomena like flipping a coin or cosmic background radiation)