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TIL: Seeds buried in the ground by a squirrel in Siberia 32,000 years are the oldest plant ever to be regenerated

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jN00E TIL of the City of Ghosts, a cemetery in Vietnam with extremely elaborate and grandiose graves, some even come with bathrooms and kitchens
XEY6r TIL that El Salvador is the only country in the world named after Jesus Christ
b7Aa TIL that naked mole rats are practically superheroes - they don’t get cancer, their noses and mouths are unaffected by acid, they live 6x longer than other rodents, they hardly age, they can survive long periods of oxygen deprivation and can live in areas with severe heavy metal pollution.
Y7nEd TIL Aliens are real
E1K7w TIL that there was a legal battle between World Wide Fund for Nature and World Wrestling Federation over the use of the acronym WWF.