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TIL that an ancient sequoia tree that has been alive for most of humanity’s modern history was cut down in 1891 so that slabs of its trunk could be displayed in museums.

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e0E4L TIL that Atlantic brants are medium-sized marine geese that can be seen in inshore waters along the U.S. east coast from Maine to Georgia as well as in parts of Europe. Also called brent geese or pale-bellied brants, they mainly eat eel grass, sea lettuce and seaweed in shallow tidal estuaries.
dD9kZ TIL the blanket octopus has the largest size discrepancy between sexes of any animal. Females can grow over six feet, while males average about one inch.
KOrnE TIL King Tut's Mother is his Father's Sister
e016n TIL Auto-tune was created by Dr. Andy Hildebrand in 1997 and the first song to use the pitch-correcting software on vocals was “Believe” by Cher in 1998.
6Vml TIL: The first food to be cooked deliberately in a microwave was popcorn, and the second was an egg, which exploded in the face of one of the experimenters.