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TIL: The world’s oldest living rose is believed to be 1,000 years old. It grows on the wall of the Cathedral of Hildesheim in Germany and its presence is documented since A.D. 815. In 1945 allied bombers destroyed the cathedral, yet the bush survived.

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neaA7 TIL that in 1963, a White civil right activist named William Lewis Moore protested segregation by walking 400 miles,alone, from Tennessee to Mississippi to deliver his own letter to the governor, urging him to accept integration. 2 days after starting, he was found murdered in the side of a highway.
YelA TIL that in 2013 a 39-storey hotel in Tokyo “disappeared,” in that it was demolished without explosives or a wrecking ball. All 39 floors were disassembled by a small crane from inside the building and there’s a timelapse of it shrinking floor by floor.
P1J1G TIL the countries with the highest average human height are the Netherlands, Montenegro, Estonia and Denmark and the lowest are East Timor, Guatemala, Laos and Nepal.
0wvR TIL that the Tenth Amendment (powers not delegated to Federal gov’t are reserved for states or people) is considered to be superfluous and self-evident, with the Supreme Court even ruling that it “added nothing to the Constitution as originally ratified.”
ebJn TIL that 54 years after Antoine de St Exupery’s disappearance at sea a fisherman found his bracelet in his fishing nets.