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TIL gilligan's island was axed to make the network president's wife happy

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4XX8a TIL the oldest garden that has been tended to continuously is 973 years old, in China, and one of 50 surviving gardens called the Classical Gardens of Suzhou, founded in 6th Century.
a5BM TIL that in 1961, a 27 year old Soviet doctor stationed at the South Pole performed a self-appendectomy using a mirror. He fully recovered.
7rggr TIL animal life in Chernobyl is thriving, not because the radiation is gone, there’s still a lot of it, but because there’s barely any humans living in that area.
4veJ TIL: Males receive, on average, 63% longer sentences than females for the exact same crime.
xVR95 TIL about the universal nut sheller, a shelling machine for peanuts. It can serve the needs of a 2000 people village, lasts 20+ years, shells up to 125lbs per hour, and costs less than $10 USD to make