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TIL that only current and former heads of state can request to reuse a deleted Reddit username

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9yaX TIL in 1976, Japan donated 53 bonsai trees to the US for its bicentennial, including a white pine that had been tended daily since 1625 and survived the Hiroshima atomic blast. Its history was unknown until 2001, when two brothers showed up at the museum to check on their grandfather’s tree.
AP1w TIL James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other, at the same time.
yVMZp TIL there is a small and salty pond in Antarctica. With a salinity level of 45.8%, the pond is 1.3 times saltier than the Dead Sea. Due to its saltiness, the water does not begin to freeze until temperatures fall below -50 C ( -58 F)
m1aOR The highly sought after "peke face" in Persian cats is actually midface hypoplasia so severe that it causes dimples and holes into the cat's skull and brain cavity.
WA8A TIL that the word ambisinistrous is the opposite of ambidextrous; it means ‘no good with either hand’