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P1bRZ TIL about King Clone, a ring of creosote bushes in the Mojave desert. At an estimated 11,700 years old it is one of the oldest living organisms on earth.
0dM9R TIL Alanis Morrisette was dropped by her record label after disappointing sales of her first two albums. Her third album, Jagged Little Pill, is the 13th highest selling album of all time worldwide.
KOK9J TIL about The tragedy of the commons- an economic problem in which every individual has an incentive to consume a resource at the expense of every other individual with no way to exclude anyone from consuming resulting in overconsumption and ultimately depletion of the resource.
4Xgk6 TIL Brown University named their porta potties the "E. Gordon Gee Lavatory Complex" after the former president Gordon Gee cut funding to the arts programs.
Zpm7v TIL that DNA is not instructions for cells to build the organism, just a list of proteins that cells can make. Scientists still aren’t sure how cells cooperate to build tissues & bodies