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TIL that California’s official state animal is extinct.
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TIL that trees in the red forest, a forest in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, are not decaying because organisms that recycle organic matter suffer from radiation as well.
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TIL that there is an unaired pilot for Archer that’s exactly the same as the pilot except that Archer is a man sized raptor and only makes dino noises.
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TIL There was a point when plants made so much oxygen that nearly everything died. This event was called the Great Oxygen Event, but also referred to as the Oxygen Holocaust.
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TIL Rev. Theodore Hesburgh held honorary degrees from seven of the eight Ivy League schools. With 150 honorary degrees from both private and public colleges and universities across the nation and the world, he held the record for most degrees ever awarded to one person.
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TIL: The automotive service companies AAMCO and MAACO were founded by the same person. The business names used the founder's initials forward and backwards respectively.