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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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Y70YW TIL that on the day Michael Jackson died it was (falsely) reported that Jeff Goldblum had fallen off a cliff and died.