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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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78ADx TIL that St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, prophesized that Ireland will be destroyed by a flood 7 years before the Apocalypse
yEWp TIL that ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ was renamed 'The Man Worth Millions’ when airing on Israeli TV because of the association between “six million” and the Holocaust
rNlM4 TIL that even aborigines who are "vaguely familiar with the underlying real animals" often confuse the whale, mammoth, and unicorn
j6d0M TIL about the Egyptian god Bes, protector of good things and households, whose depiction differs from the other Egyptian gods in that he faces forward rather than a side profile.
lQQ5 TIL The Hindenberg, who’s crash heralded the disappearence of the zeppelins, was originally designed to use non-flammable helium (not hydrogen) but the US controlled the only Helium supplies and refused to export them.