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TIL that the North Star (Polaris) is younger than trees

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ne1Gb TIL gorillas only have type B blood.
P1Nwg TIL about "Nobel Disease", a tendency for some Nobel Prize winners to adopt unfounded, pseudoscientific beliefs, often outside their areas of expertise.
R7re9 TIL that In February 1939, Lise Meitner described a groundbreaking nuclear phenomenon in a letter to Nature editor and called it Nuclear Fission. Five years later, a Nobel prize was awarded to Otto Hahn for the discovery of fission; a word he never used in his original paper.
X0e9r TIL that the longest perfectly straight stretch of the U.S. interstate highway system is on I-80 between Lincoln and Grand Island, Nebraska and is approximately 72 miles (116 km) long.
5YdQD TIL that when dinner forks were introduced to Europe in the late Middle Ages, they were considered to be a tool of the Devil and were thus banned by the Catholic Church