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TIL that an ancient sequoia tree that has been alive for most of humanity’s modern history was cut down in 1891 so that slabs of its trunk could be displayed in museums.

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69YJJ TIL about the "Dilberito," a vegetarian wrap concocted by Dilbert creator Scott Adams to tie into his comic strip. The product was a colossal failure, with Adams, himself, saying, "one bite made you fart so hard, your intestines formed a tail."
ARrd TIL a Minnesota woman was ordered to pay $222,000 in damages for illegally downloading 24 songs.
aPkL TIL Governor Ronald Reagan signed the Mulford Act in 1967, which repealed public carrying of firearms in California.
Z8ZYB TIL that notorious mafia boss "Lucky" Luciano aided the WWII effort from his prison cell by ordering his men to protect the East Coast from foreign invasion and convincing his Italian mafia contacts to help the Allies during their invasion of Sicily
VM0rB TIL Virginia Woolf killed herself by filling her pockets with rocks and walking into the River Ouse