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TIL the world's oldest living organism is 13,000 years old and is a shrub in Pennsylvania.

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9YKGM TIL following his death at the Battle of Little Big Horn, the reputation of General George Custer was rehabilitated by his widow, who spent decades promoting his image as as the "gallant fallen hero amid the glory of Custer's Last Stand".
OGGJ4 TIL Lam Kor-wan 林過雲 is one of Hong Kong's two known serial killers. He worked as a taxi driver and killed 4 women. He would pick up female passengers, strangle them, then take them to his family home, and dismember them. He was caught by trying to develop photographs of his victims in a Kodak shop.
0dwoy TIL in 2017 fitness app Strava published a map showing every single activity ever uploaded to it, inadvertently revealing sensitive information about locations and layouts of military bases.
Eg7EP TIL about Coagula, DC Comics' first transgender superhero; she was introduced in a 1993 story ("The Laughing Game") where she defeats The Codpiece, a spurned-man-turned-villain with a multifunctional mechanical codpiece.
9YQGr TIL: Playing cards featuring summaries of cold cases and victims' photos have been made available to prison inmates in several U.S. states. So far, approximately 40 cases have been solved as a direct result of being featured on the cards.