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TIL there is a bush that is about 11,700 years old.

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VBjrZ TIL that there is a village (pop. 58) in Missouri named Tightwad, said to be named after a local store owner who overcharged his customers. Tightwad Bank was opened to capitalize on the name, and at one point had $20 million in deposits.
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xVQP7 TIL that a rubber chicken sings better than me
WGvY TIL Maud Gonne, a fascinating 19th century revolutionary, was so grieved by the death of her infant son that she and the boy’s father had sex next to his coffin in the hope that his soul would transmigrate in metempsychosis
jxXE TIL that it rains more on Saturdays, because of the pollution that is built up during the five weekdays.