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TIL that the giant Sequoia trees that grow famously in California are also flourishing in GERMANY!

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rRQ0 TIL for Bill Gates’ wedding, to insure his and his wifes privacy for the day of their wedding, Bill rented every hotel room at a hotel and chartered every helicopter close by on the Hawaiian island Lanai.
MyMb TIL that it used to be compulsory for figure skaters to slowly trace precise, intricate shapes into the ice to be inspected by judges for scoring – hence the name ‘figure skating’.
Y1Vd TIL that most mermaid “sightings” were most likely manatees, dugongs, or Steller’s sea cows. In fact, Christopher Columbus spotted 3 manatees near the Dominican Republic and would later write that mermaids are “not half as beautiful as they are painted.”
M7y97 TIL that the Oneida silverware company started as a sex cult
ygdJ TIL that during the Berlin Blockade in 1948 a pilot who was doing supply drops for the civilians became known as ‘Uncle Wiggly Wings’ after he started dropping candy and chocolate from his plane and wiggling his wings so people knew it was him.