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TIL NASA gave away hundreds of trees that have been to the moon. They never kept track of who they gave them to. Now they are trying to find them. One was at the White House.

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xVOdg TIL that Tom Brady was drafted by the Montreal Expos in 1995
0dgXy TIL that Sam Spade, despite being a noir icon, not including a few short stories only canonically appeared in the novel The Maltese Falcon and its movie adaptions
NGMQ TIL Honolulu in Hawaii is ranked 4th among US cities for the most skyscrapers behind only to New York City, Chicago and Miami
BrkjD TIL of the Colt clan incest case - an Australian family discovered in 2012, engaged in four generations of incest beginning in the 1970s. The family grew to 40 members. The members' true identities remain unknown to the public.
x65bw TIL microwave technology has barely evolved in the past few decades, and most countertop microwaves sold in the US are manufactured by just one company, Midea.