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TIL that the owner of In-N-Out, Lynsi Synder, is the only surviving descendant of the founders of In N Out (her grandparents) and at age 31, she is worth $1.1 billion dollars

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8eXL4 TIL the original English voice actor to Daisy in the Mario series, Kate Fleming, passed away in a flash flood. Her partner, Charlene Strong, made a film For My Wife... in dedication to same-sex marriage equality and the challenges faced due to legal restrictions in processing Kate's passing.
W7oRd Today I learned that in 1985 the US shot down a satellite in orbit with an F-15
e09yE TIL trees are mostly made from the air, not the ground. They take carbon dioxide, use photosynthesis to split carbon off to make most of their mass, and "exhale" the oxygen.
NXEwb TIL - FBI is struggling to hire hackers due to a rule saying they shouldn’t have taken marijuana in the past 3 years.
LWOm TIL while Dirk Willems was escaping from a prison across an ice covered pond, a guard noticed him and chased him. The guard ended up breaking the ice and falling into the water, begging for help. Willems turned back and saved him, only for the guard to recapture the prisoner and have him executed