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TIL a Florida woman accidentally burned down a 3500 year old cypress tree, the 5th oldest in the country, because she was smoking meth under it and lit a fire so that she could see her meth better.

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xVaV7 TIL the Bohemian Rhapsody video took only four hours to film. The band arrived to the studio at 7.30 in the morning and by 11.30 they were finished and were relaxing in a local pub. The entire thing cost $2025.
jN7yv TIL the term "space" (to represent a place beyond the earth) was coined by a female poet in the 1800s - Lady Emmelunw Stuart-Wooley in her poem "The Lady of Moscow."
WEE9 TIL that of the 100+ people to die in the building of the Hoover Dam, the first and last to perish were a father and son who plummeted to their death 13 years to the day apart.
d8yGj TIL a fish called the Red Sea Moses sole secretes a substance that repels sharks by irritating their gills
kJ0Vd TIL the Normandy beach names of Utah & Omaha were selected at random, when a general asked two NCOs where they were from. The British & Canadian names were abbreviations for certain fish: goldfish, swordfish & jellyfish. Jelly was changed to Juno in honour of the wife of one of the officers