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TIL some radar detectors use radar detector detector detectors to detect radar detector detectors to prevent detection

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E1ejd TIL about the oldest trees in the world, the oldest one ever found known as Prometheus located in Nevada, which lived for approx 5000 years until it was cut by a graduate student and United States and Forest Service for other research purposes unknowing of the history of the tree.
XNOP TIL Take This Lollipop was a 2011 interactive horror short film/Facebook app that requested access to your Facebook account, then used info from that account to fill in details of the film. Its goal was to underscore the dangers inherent in posting too much personal information about oneself online.
KYjP4 TIL that Women's football was banned by the Football Association in the UK from 1921 until 1971
N7wGe TIL a 2015 study rated pork fat as the 8th most nutritionally rich food in existence
dVVj TIL Paris Hilton’s grandfather is so ashamed of her behavior that when he dies his fortune is going to charity