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TIL that whales are so big, they can take up to 100 years of creatures consuming them to decompose

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wLROM TIL when SkyLab disintegrated over a West Australian town, NASA received a $400 ticket for littering from the rural town that received the debris. A radio DJ raised the funds to pay the ticket in the 90s.
9wA56 Today I learned of Seneca Village, a settlement founded by free Black Americans that was seized and razed in 1857 to create New York's Central Park. Wealthy families successfully sued to prevent the seizure of their land that was the original site proposed for a park.
Brgwy TIL President Harry S. Truman had a sign on his desk in the Oval Office that said, "The Buck Stops Here."
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