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TIL Beefsteak fungus (aka poor man's steak) is actually edible

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X0OwE TIL the last American Civil War widow died in 2020. Helen Viola Jackson was 17 when she married 93 year old veteran James Bolin. They married so that the Jackson would be eligible for Bolin's pension after the teenager helped the elderly Bolin with chores. Jackson never applied for the pension.
6JwQ TIL There’s a tree that owns itself, and cannot be legally tore down for urban development
j6GwX TIL that Ronald Reagen likely had Alzheimer's while president. His son Ron believes he began to show signs of it as early as three years into his first presidential term. Reagan announced he had been officially diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 1994, five years after leaving office.
loONN TIL that Steve Irwin's father refused a state funeral for his son because in the words of his son, he was an "ordinary bloke".
OoKe1 Today I learned that the Germanic peoples, particularly the Vikings, often buried their dead in ships or boats. The largest discovered Viking ship grave is over 1000 years old and 65 feet long.