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TIL In 1963 One Man Accidentally Killed the Oldest Tree Ever Recorded. It was a Great Bristlecone Pine, Nicknamed the Prometheus tree, and it was almost 5,000 years old.

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DQQgr TIL Roscoe Orman who played Gordon on Sesame Street 1974-2016 also played the pimp Willie in the 1973 blaxploitation film Willie Dynamite
RPNl TIL that a lost masterpiece by Da Vinci is likely hidden behind a wall in Florence, but nobody is willing to take the wall down because it ALSO has a priceless fresco painted on it.
WpbL TIL, That a Mexican man who accidentally killed his cousin while drunk was sentenced to death by being buried with alive with the cousin whom he had killed.
rRDN0 TIL about the J-Cart for the Sega Genesis. It held not only the game data but also came with two additional gamepad ports. This effectively allowed four players to play simultaneously without any extra adapters.
Ype4W TIL alcohol-related deaths account for 3 million deaths annually, which is 7 times more fatalities than homicide. It is the number one cause of death of people between the ages of 15 and 49.