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Today I learned there there is no evidence that Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla hated each other.

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9YZmX TIL about the Georgia Guidestones, a set of huge granite slabs in Elbert County, Georgia commissioned by anonymous benefactors. The 5 slabs contain messages in 12 languages, and are intended to help rebuild human civilization after a global catastrophe.
XENVP TIL: Honey can exist unspoiled and still edible, almost indefinitely. Archeologists excavating Egyptian tombs have uncovered preserved pots of honey several thousand years old.
KO0A9 TIL that Germans make up the largest ancestry group in the US followed by African Americans, Irish, Mexican and English. The German language was for a time the second most commonly spoken language in the US before the stigma of "speaking the enemy's language" during the World Wars.
X0QRX TIL of Albert Gunter, a bus driver during the Great Smog of London 1952. Not realising Tower Bridge was raising, he made a spit second decision to jump the 6ft gap in his 12,000kg double decker bus at 12mph. He was awarded £5 (£245 current value) and a day off for his bravery.
DQADg TIL the world’s oldest living trees are thought to be in Tasmania, Australia. Some Huon Pine trees growing on the island are estimated to be more than 10,000 years old.