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TIL tree rings can reveal the dates of historical hurricanes

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gr5yW TIL Washington Crossing the Delaware was painted by a German-born artist and the original was destroyed by allied bombing during World War II.
4ejX TIL Burt’s Bees is owned by Clorox
Y706A TIL that in ancient pictures of unicorns, they were depicted more like goats not horses.
EW0p TIL that workers at Nashville airport handled a cellist’s case so roughly they managed to break both the case and the cello inside it. The airline called it a ‘baggage handling irregularity’
Z8woD TIL that nobody wanted to buy the Ford Pinto during its launch in Brazil in the 1970s. The company then realized that "pinto" is actually portuguese slang for "small male genitalia".