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TIL The oldest tree on the east coast of the US is a Bald Cypress tree in North Carolina that is 2674 years old

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nDQo TIL breast cancer receives the most funding per new case, $2,596, while prostate cancer, the most common cancer, receives the least funding per new case at just $1,318
N1yQ TIL JFK said “There is a terrific disadvantage not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily … even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn’t write it … there isn’t any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without [the press]”
W759 TIL the big island of Hawaii installed special street lights so the Mauna Kea observatory can have the darkest skies possible when stargazing
MQLW TIL The Economist has an indicator of the purchasing power of a country measured in how many Big Macs could be bought in that country with $50 USD - The Big Mac Index.
mxlOP TIL in 1870, the corrupt leader of NYC’s city Hall, Boss Tweed offered the New York Times the equivalent of $100 million to not publish their expose on his political corruption.