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TIL that the official residence of the Canadian Prime Minister has been unoccupied since 2015, while crews work to renovate the building and remove rodents, asbestos, and obsolete mechanical/electrical/heating systems.

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v1Y9L TIL of the Arlington Ladies who are a group of volunteers that attend funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery to ensure that no Soldier, Sailor, Airman or Coast Guardsman is buried alone.
j6MoN Today I learned bowhead whales can live over 200 years, and ancient stone points have been discovered underneath their skin from failed hunting attempts in prior centuries.
Eon0 TIL Carl von Linné, father of modern taxonomy, would take revenge at his enemies by naming nasty smelling weeds after them. e.g. Siegesbeckia after a fellow botanist he begrudged.
rN1n1 TIL on our billions years old planet, trees have only been around for 400M years. For the first 40M bacteria, fungus, mold, yeast, and animals had NFI what to do with them. So trees just got old and fell over. 40M years of perfectly fine baseball bats and chesterfields just laying around the place.
x6N4b TIL U.S. Taxpayers funded re-forestation efforts in Lebanon for the historic Cedar trees