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TIL that Wikipedia is about as accurate as Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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yQDgX TIL that it’s 11:00AM in Mumbai when it’s 12:30AM in Houston.
rlyx TIL a tree, believed to be at least 3000 years old was cut down in 1964 by a grad student. The reason why is still in dispute. The tree was later proven to be at least 4864 years old and likely more than 5000. It was more than 1000 years old when the Great Pyramid of Giza was built.
woDKE TIL humans and strawberries share 60% of their dna
epPjD TIL that activist Coretta Scott King babysat John Lithgow when he was a child
8aedP TIL of Tama (たま, April 29, 1999 – June 22, 2015), a female calico cat who gained fame for being a station master and operating officer at Kishi Station on the Kishigawa Line in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.