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TIL There used to be 4 billion American chestnut trees, but they all disappeared because of a fungus that kills them as saplings.

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neBWG TIL Ben Gibbard, from Death Cab for Cutie, is an ultra marathon runner, regularly running 50/100 mile races
l7eXr TIL that a high school has its own train station. Only four trains a day stop at Caltrain's College Park station in San Jose, California, near Bellarmine Prep school. Caltrain would like to close the station, but students and parents say that it is very busy during the stops.
PY9ng TIL that in Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.
QWmk TIL that Ozzy Osbourne has survived decades of drug and alcohol abuse because he has several genetic mutations “we’ve never seen before” that help him party hard.
xVYbk TIL that in most legal systems, a bank deposit of money is not a bailment. In other words, when you deposit cash to a bank, the funds deposited are no longer your property. You merely loaned the money to the bank for a promised interest without security.