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TIL Godzilla is now an official citizen of Japan

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8aVRP TIL about Leo Marks, WW2 cryptographer, who was given a 20 minute training exercise on his first day at work which took him the whole day to complete. He had accidentally not been given the cipher key and ended up breaking a code that was meant to be secure.
xVRj7 TIL about the pando tree. 108 acres are covered with trees genetically identical so they are considered the same organism. This makes it the worlds heaviest living organism and one of the world's oldest living organisms at an estimated 16,000 years old.
rNLj0 TIL: I just discovered that King Charles III isn’t just the King of England but also the King of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand! One monarch, four countries.
0NGR TIL That Egyptians had two types of writing, not just hieroglyphics.
4XDO6 TIL Flying "coach" is a reference to traveling by stagecoach, which involved large numbers of travelers sharing cramped quarters with little to no amenities. This primitive, negative connotation is why airlines don't officially call it "coach," but rather "economy class."