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TIL There exists a picture (taken in 1865) that shows a young Teddy Roosevelt, aged 7, watching the Abraham Lincoln funeral procession from his window in New York City.

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8R6V TIL Turritopsis nutricula, a jellyfish, has the capability of eternal life by reversing its immaturity. Scientific research currently has no discovered estimated life span.
NgJ6 TIL there’s a place in Mongolia that was declared sacred by Genghis Khan. The only people allowed to enter were the Mongol Royal Family and a tribe of elite warriors, the darkhat, whose job it was to guard it, punishment for entering being death. They carried out their task for 697 yrs, until 1924.
LkZ5Q TIL of a population of Russian brown bears which appear to have become addicted to huffing gas fumes. The bears will sniff the fumes and then dig a shallow hole to lie down in.
G65N TIL that Japan sells its rare Kobe beef to just three restaurants in the United States so that “Kobe steak” that you just ate is probably fake
loAJV TIL Of Rainbow Valley, a region of Mount Everest ironically named after the rainbow of parkas worn by the corpses of failed climbers unable to be retrieved