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TIL Scientists have actually succeeded in turning lead into gold, through Nuclear Transmutation.

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wLXKE TIL there is a "forest" covering over 100 acres consisting of over 40,000 trunks of a single tree. The trunks are all connected to the same root system and collectively weigh 6000 metric tons. The root system is an estimated 80,000 years old, though each trunk only lives about 130 years.
GYLMQ TIL: A survey in 1577 of drinking establishment in England and Wales for taxation purposes recorded 14,202 alehouses, 1,631 inns, and 329 taverns, representing one pub for every 187 people.
oR9BA TIL actor Jim Rash, know for playing Dean Craig Pelton on the sitcom Community, won the 2012 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Co-writing The Decedent's.
d88lE TIL that China poured more cement between 2011 and 2013 than the US used in the entire 20th century
8DDV TIL that pilots eat different meals to avoid food poisoning