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TIL there is a tree that owns itself in Athens, GA

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AEWd TIL that after the removal of the Creek and Cherokee from their lands, the state of Georgia held a series of public lotteries to give away the property to White settlers.
X0o4Q TIL that the lead vocals in Elvin Bishop’s hit “Fooled Around and Fell In Love” were performed not by Bishop himself, but by his backup singer Mickey Thomas who later went on to form the band Starship with hits such as “We Built This City” “Sara” and “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now”
dgOB TIL that 92% of fetuses with trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome) are terminated in Europe.
X0Mwj TIL Mercury was still in use for hat making in the U.S. until the 1940's.
OoPa4 TIL the word "jizz" actually means "the overall impression or appearance of a bird", which leads to sentences in bird watching books such as "The soaring jizz is quite majestic"