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TIL that millipedes and are not insects, they are a category all on their own. Millipedes belong to the class Diplopoda, while insects belong to the class Insecta.

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WkVXL TIL of “the Tree That Owns Itself.” In 1890, a landowner left an oak tree and the surrounding land to the tree itself. When the original tree was knocked down by a storm in 1940, the new tree was planted from an acorn and is now known as “The Son of the Tree That Owns Itself.”
XWKk TIL The person with the oldest confirmed lifespan was born the year Alexander Graham Bell made the first sound transmission, and died the year Puff Daddy got a Billboard Hot 100 Number one with ‘Can’t nobody hold me down’
JYW6k TIL that the Mars 2020 rover will have a solar powered helicopter rover buddy
MeXXK TIL Michael Jordan’s house has been on the market for four years without a buyer
m1YmP TIL the first person to earn a PhD in computer science in the United States was a Mary Kenneth Keller, a Catholic nun