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TIL: Man Stopped Growing At Six Months Old Is Now 21 And Only 23 Inches Tall

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j64Wn TIL that Jonathan the tortoise was born 29 years before the US Civil War and is still alive today
mxn8O TIL helicopter fire fighters (Aerial firefighter) can fill their buckets from local swimming pools. This is helpful when fighting wild fire and there are no lakes nearby. Happens mostly in California.
X0KM6 TIL that Woodcutter ants (among other species of ants) use their dead to cultivate, or "farm" fungi/mushrooms, that they then harvest and eat.
0dGj5 TIL about the existence of a symbol for ?!, the interrobang
NXynP TIL that the Bluetooth logo is a combination of two Viking-Era Younger Futhark runes that are analogous to the Latin letters “H” and “B”, initials of King Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson who united Norway and Denmark in 958 CE, and whose moniker is believed to come from the color of his dead tooth.