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TIL for the first 40 million years that woody trees were around, wood was not biodegradable...until a fungus figured out how to rot it

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6ErOZ TIL Billionaire Richard Branson Made A Low Key Appearance In The Show Friends. With About 50 Seconds Of Camera Time He Played A Souvenir Seller Mundanely Serving Joey.
eyB4 TIL that over 4000 human diseases are caused by single gene defects.
awVeM TIL About half of the US Presidents have been bilinguals or polyglots.
9wL8p TIL that the first recorded Ponzi scheme wasn’t by Charles Ponzi: it was by German Adele Spitzeder in the 19th century, who used new investors’ money to repay old investors. At her height, she was the wealthiest woman in Bavaria, until she was convicted of bad accounting and stripped of her assets
6ERBX TIL Scythian Golden Pectoral of magnificent workmanship consists of three tiers of 48 meticulously detailed figures of men and animals. It weighs 1.2 kg (2.6 pounds), of pure 24 carat gold, dates 4th BC and was found in Ukraine in 1971