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TIL that the "General Sherman" tree in the Giant Forest is approximately 2200 years old. It would have been a little sapling 200 years before Jesus walked the earth

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74GZ TIL that people who read books for at least 30 minutes a day live longer than those who don’t read at all.
GYKPG TIL about Frisland, a "phantom/imaginary" island off the coast of Greenland which, despite being nonexistent, appeared on virtually all of the maps of the North Atlantic from the 1560s through the 1660s.
j6B6a TIL that the TV show "Charlie's Angels" made its first three actresses big stars, especially Farrah Fawcett. She said, "When the show was number three, I figured it was our acting. When it got to be number one, I decided it could only be because none of us wears a bra".
DQ9Ae TIL that general Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna had a funeral for his leg
1a9W7 TIL in the 1870s, an 11 time Mexican President exiled to Staten Island, partnered with New Jersey inventor to sell gum to fund an army to return to power once more. After he gave up and returned to Mexico, his partner went on to create what we know as chewing gum sticks today.