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Today I learned there's a tree with bark that curls off and scientists aren't sure why this happens

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14md TIL that between 1992-1996, members of the Norwegian Black Metal scene began a string of arson, burning at least 50 churches as a symbolic retaliation against Christianity in Norway.
O78Y TIL that, hours before his death, Einstein was still attempting to prove his Theory of Everything.
Lk0WP TIL that the street in front of the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest was named in honor of Liviu Librescu, Romanian–American scientist and engineer. A prominent academic in addition to being a survivor of the Holocaust, he is renown for his heroism during the 2007 Virginia Tech Shooting.
JWeB TIL Winston Churchill found so much enjoyment and relaxation in laying bricks he even joined and paid dues in the Bricklayer’s Union. He even inquired in a letter “is there is a rule regulating the number of bricks which a man may lay a day?…and what are the restrictions on overtime?”
vPlw4 TIL that Warren Buffett loves Coke so much that he drinks about five cans a day. As a major shareholder, he once joked that a quarter of his body is made up of Coke.