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TIL Jerry Brown was both the youngest and oldest governor in CA history.

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v1R8L TIL of The McKee Sons, a freighter that ran aground in the Detroit River on Christmas Eve while delivering almost 12,000 tons of coal
08bv TIL plants draw their carbon from the air, not the ground, meaning that after you die, even if you were buried in an urn full of tree seeds, most of you would never actually become a tree.
XPDP TIL that the comments section of online news sites were found to have a higher quality of discussion when the commenters had to use their facebook account rather than an anonymous name.
4gOw TIL the Greek and Roman word for giraffe was ‘camelopardalis’, because they believed it was an unnatural hybrid of a camel and a leopard.
yVYml TIL about Ol Doinyo Lengai: A unique and active volcano in Tanzania that erupts relatively low temperature natrocarbonatite lava that is black when liquid and dries white.