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TIL palm trees lack cells to make tree rings and are genetically closer to grass than trees.

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OGB4R TIL the house where Bo Burnham lived until 2021 and filmed his special Inside is the famous Elm Street house.
1LP TIL that as recently as 2000 years ago Madagascar was home to gorilla-sized lemurs … humans encountered them and they quickly died out [middle of first paragraph]
grARb TIL 2006 film Cars earned $462 million on box office, relatively modest result for Pixar films. However it earned $8 billion on merchandising in just 5 years.