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TIL about The Public Universal Friend; a genderless American Quaker who preached in the late 1700s.

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mrav TIL no wild orca has ever killed a human.
M9mB TIL: The decision of 18 y/o King Michael I of Romania to carry out a coup against the Nazi ally & prime minister, Ion Antonescu, in 1944 is thought to have ended WWII early by as much as 6 months.
Z845v TIL that in 2008, fossilized ink sacs we recovered from preserved remains of Belemnotheutis cephalopods. Mixed with ammonia solution, the team was able to return the ink to its liquid form and used the ~150 million year old ink to draw a replica of of the original illustration of Belemnotheutis.
16Vxd TIL the largest rose tree in the world, located in Tombstone, Arizona, was planted in 1885 and now covers 5000 square feet and has a trunk that is 14 feet in diameter
nWE1Y TIL that the 1961 game show "You're in the Picture" was so poorly received that it was cancelled after only two episodes. The second episode consisted entirely of the host apologizing to the audience for how bad the first episode had been.