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TIL minutes after FDR’s mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, died, the largest of the many oak trees outside her home suddenly collapsed. It was a clear, windless day.

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krom TIL Banksy’s New Orleans work is under attack by an anti-graffiti vigilante known only as ‘The Gray Ghost’
Z8JEo TIL there is a small strip of land in North Carolina which is officially British. This small cemetery is the burial place of several soldiers killed in World War 2. It flies the British flag, and the 'forever lease' states that it is British land.
BJoe TIL researchers from Cornell University are using computational models to generate rap lyrics. “In terms of quantitative rhyme density, the produced lyrics outperform best human rappers by 21%”.
p89p TIL the term “suck it” was used almost twice as often in the 1650 as it is now
wody6 TIL Admiral George Dewey withdrew his candidacy for the 1900 election after he was quoted to have said that being President was easy because he would just follow the orders of Congress