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TIL Joshua Trees are not actually Trees, but Succulents. However, they are considered trees of the desert.

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QJMQp TIL that in 2010 a group of hackers hacked the 2010 School Board e-voting system in Washington DC, and got Bender (from Futurama) elected
j5av TIL that a children’s entertainer named Soupy Sales asked on-air that children send him “those funny little pieces of paper with pictures of presidents on them” from their parents’ purses and wallets and was thus suspended from his show for 2 weeks
JYRLk TIL Playboy featured a transgender model in 1991
LkWv0 TIL in 1974 Stephen King sold the publishing rights to his first novel, “Carrie,” for $2500 plus royalties. One year later the paperback version was sold for $400,000 plus royalties.
1akmr TIL Pangolins are used in Chinese traditional medicine to treat excessive anxiety; hysterical crying in children; women thought to be possessed by devils and ogres; malarial fever; and deafness. These claims are not based on scientific evidence.