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TIL:of Pando a grove of 47,000 or so trees that is genetically identical and all the trees share a single root system.

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X9KQ TIL that a “white elephant gift exchange” takes its name from the legend of the King of Siam gifting rare albino elephants to those who displeased him because the upkeep costs would financially ruin them.
4eJN TIL America’s first female self-made millionaire was a black woman
W7kbL TIL there was U.S. federal judge named Wesley Brown who continued to serve at the age of 104
Dr4P TIL the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor were all demonstrated for the first time in what is the called the “mother of all demos” back in 1968
j7BR TIL That despite homosexual sex being punishable by death (potentially) in Iran, sex change operations are perfectly legal and often state-funded. Iranians account for the second highest amount of sex changes in the world, behind Thailand.