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TIL that in the needles of the Pinus flexilis live bacteria that are capable of fixing nitrogen from the air.

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wLOjo TIL in 1981, Radio Shack delivered a TRS-80 computer to Isaac Asimov's apartment. Although initially reluctant to use it, a Radio Shack employee came to set it up and tutor Asimov. This would end Asimov's exclusive use of a typewriter and he would eventually appear in Radio Shack's advertising.
ADD8d Turkey got your tongue?
1gW TIL that Lofoten in Norway is north of the Arctic Circle. Yet because of the largest positive temperature anomaly in the world relative to latitude it is teeming with life and has the largest deep water coral reef in the word.
9w4Jp TIL William Sessions (FBI director until 1993) became a lawyer for the Russian mob's international leader
PykG TIL that during the 2003 Station Nightclub fire, a reporter filmed the entire fire from the moment before the pyrotechnics went off on the main stage. He was at the club doing a piece on nightclub safety.