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TIL: George Washington owned one of America's first Distilleries

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b9Pda TIL There is an infallible conspiracy (cannot be disproven) called Last Thursdayism that simply states that the world was created last thursday
LPl9 TIL that the plural of octopus is ‘octopuses’ or 'octopodes.’ The word 'octopi’ is actually incorrect.
Y7JrB TIL that in Ireland in 1985, people across the country claimed to have seen statues of the Virgin Mary and imagery of other holy figures spontaneously moving. The Catholic Church was skeptical and wrote it off as illusions.
R5w8j TIL: Elephants have the longest gestation period for a mammal (Asian elephants: 18-22 months, African bush elephants: 22 months) and won’t give birth for another 4-years.
9w49B TIL about the Zuma, a classified program run by the National Reconnaisance Office. At $3.5 billion, it was at the time the most expensive space launch ever conducted. The satellite apparently failed during deployment and fell back to earth