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TIL the scientific name for the Black Walnut tree is “Juglans Nigra…”

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Brl0r TIL about PayPal accidentally crediting $93 quadrillion to a man's PayPal account, which is an amount 1000 times the planet's entire GDP
Y8Lv TIL that the BBC does not use a recording of Big Ben’s chimes for radio, instead the audio is sent live from the tower to broadcast
WkGeL TIL twins can be born with different fathers in a conflict raising surprise known as heteropaternal superfecundation where the woman releases multiple eggs days apart
worXW TIL About The Pig War, a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the United Kingdom over the British–U.S. border in the San Juan Islands, so called because it was triggered by the shooting of a pig.
Vl5B TIL a group of Persian soldiers in the middle ages are the origin of both words, ‘assassin’ and 'hashish’: the Hashshashin.