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TIL There are secret albino Redwood trees growing in some State Parks

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YpwEv TIL a Chipotle pepper is just a smoked jalapeño. Chipotle means "smoked pepper" in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs.
v10v4 TIL the Catalina Islands, located off of California's coast, has a wild Bison herd thats existed for nearly a century.
VMQ8Q TIL that composer John Williams has been nominated for 51 Academy Awards (winning 5) second only to Walt Disney who has 59. Williams has been nominated in six different decades, receiving his first for Valley of the Dolls in 1968 and his last for Star Wars: The Last Jedi in 2018.
4NQ6 TIL a viking ship made out of 15 million popsicle sticks sailed from the Netherlands to England
4X505 TIL It was as recent as December 2020 that the last widow of a US Civil War soldier (fought 1861-1865) passed away.