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TIL Colorado was once home to giant redwood trees.

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OjkR TIL when Bill Murray was 20 years old he was caught smuggling 10 pounds of Marijuana at a Chicago Airport which he told police he intended to sell. He recieved probation.
EgMO7 TIL that Japan received its first female fighter pilot in 2018. She was inspired as a child by Top Gun but could not become a combat aviator until the JSDF began accepting female candidates in 2015.
LpDd TIL that in 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
9Y08Q TIL that there are farmers who schedule planting, cultivating and harvesting of crops based on moon phases
jnxX TIL an xbox user was banned for putting his actual hometown, “Fort Gay” West Virginia as his residence. It took an appeal by the towns mayor for Microsoft to reverse it.