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TIL that home of the Tallest Tree in the world is California and it size is as twice the size of the Statue of Liberty

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JYyxQ TIL the Queen's Engineering Society's motto "Quis Dolor Cui Dolium" translates to "Who suffers who has a cask of wine?" This motto was devised in 1963 to lend some Latin dignity to the Society's informal English motto, "What the hell as long as there's free beer."
v1jEx TIL that the Lobster War was a three-year long war between Brazil and France over spiny lobsters in Brazil's coast. The Brazilian government refused to allow French vessels to catch spiny lobsters 100 miles off the Brazilian coast. No one died during the conflict
E1x9p TIL Edward Norton is a prolific philanthropist, being president of the American Branch of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, a UN Goodwill Ambassador, member of Enterprise Community Partners, founding CrowdRise to raise funds for charity, and chairman of the board to Signature Theatre.
1ZBP TIL that the Native American Seminole tribe bought Hard Rock Cafe in 2006. “ We will buy back American one hamburger at a time”
Wr69 TIL that “baby carrots” are almost all just regular carrots cut and reshaped to look like small carrots. It was a marketing gimmick.