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TIL Colorado was once home to giant redwood trees.

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loNor TIL: "Cloudbusting" was a term coined by psychoanalyst wilhelm reich to describe manipulation of "orgone energy" to change the weather, through a specially designed machine. The term was later used as the subject and title of Katie Bush's single 1985 single, Cloudbusting.
R7R51 TIL that in France, the movie "Cool Runnings" about the first Jamaican bobsled team is called "Rasta Rockett."
Reg1 TIL that nearly a third of all the city Aldermen elected in Chicago between 1972 and 2012 have been convicted on corruption charges at one time or another.
Y7KrW TIL there is no such thing as a private beach in Australia. All land that the high tide touches is owned by the Crown - and therefore public land - even if erosion moves the high tide mark inland.
OWr6 TIL the British law for Treason was created in 1351, is written in Medieval French and remains unchanged to this day.