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TIL that the 5th oldest tree on the planet was burned down by a woman smoking meth.

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jQYR TIL Alexander the Great’s father had 3000 POWs executed by “ritual drowning.”
BXGr TIL “Kansas” is a mispronunciation of French spelling, and should be pronounced like the last 2 syllables of “Arkansas.”
YpRnA TIL in WWII German command ordered encircled US troops in Bastogne to surrender, to which Gen Anthony McAuliffe replied simply: NUTS! When Col Joseph Harper delivered the message to the German commander, the commander asked what the message meant. Harper replied, "In plain English? Go to hell."
kJpwW TIL After assaulting two people, Monroe Isadore, a 107-year-old man from Arkansas, died in a shootout with a SWAT team.
M7VPA TIL the average human typically creates about 6,000 thoughts per day. It's estimated that about 70-80% of these thoughts are negative, leaving the average person feeling mental fatigue and anxiety more often than not.