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TIL That a Galapagos tortoise that died in 2006 at Steve Irwin’s zoo was originally owned as a pet by Charles Darwin in 1835.

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10QV TIL that Great White sharks can live up to 70 years in the wild.
X8Or TIL the word “umbrage,” i.e. “take umbrage” (take offense) is from the Latin “umbra,” or parasol, and used to be a synonym for “shade.” “He took umbrage at the suggestion” literally = someone was throwing shade at him.
9Ymm TIL The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that the nation’s population is 314,159,265, or roughly pi times 100 million.
bXgN TIL It is estimated that old-growth redwood forest once covered close to 2,000,000 acres (8,100 km2) of coastal northern California. 96% of all old-growth redwoods have been logged.
Mee5a A white noise machine is the simplest solution to blocking out noise.