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TIL A meth junkie crawled inside a 3,500 year old Florida tree, the fifth oldest tree, and burnt it down.

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V0Mk TIL Drew Carey tried to kill himself when he was 18 in Las Vegas. He was homeless, was selling his plasma for $40, and looked for spare change to buy boxed macaroni and cheese. “All I had was water, no butter. That is some bad macaroni and cheese.”
Meooa TIL The computer game Tron actually came out after the movie did. It even made more money in arcades than the movie did in theaters.
gMGZL TIL Seniors with dementia often think that dark areas of the floor are holes and won’t walk over them.
X0ARD TIL German Submarine U-505 was secretly captured by the US Navy on 4 June 1944 by Task Group 22.3. The crew attempted to scuttle it & a US 8-man boarding party rushed inside and were able to keep it afloat to be towed 3,150 km back to Bermuda. Capture of the ship was kept secret until after the war.
4kK1N TIL: In 2017, the "holographic" universe theory came back after a UK, Canadian, and Italian study provided the first observational evidence for the explanation. The theory is that our "3d" reality is contained in a 2D surface and that the entire universe is encoded like a 3D movie or a hologram.