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TIL Seth Green was given a key to the city of New Orleans in 1991, at age 17.

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nexPP TIL During the Cold War a Soviet Duty Officer whose job it was to report missile strikes to high command, dismissed satellite reports of five inbound missiles, saving the world from nuclear war.
WkVXL TIL of “the Tree That Owns Itself.” In 1890, a landowner left an oak tree and the surrounding land to the tree itself. When the original tree was knocked down by a storm in 1940, the new tree was planted from an acorn and is now known as “The Son of the Tree That Owns Itself.”
oaBo TIL Scientists conected a paralyzed woman’s brain to basic tablet so she could google about gardening
Gbx4 TIL that “Shamu”, Sea World’s famed Killer Whale, has been dead since 1971 and they just recycle the name for new Orcas in their shows.
VBWJ8 TIL In 1963, The Alweg Monorail Company offered to build a 43-mile monorail system for Los Angeles County free of charge, recouping construction costs from passenger fares. The County Board of Supervisors declined the offer under pressure from Standard Oil.