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TIL Cannabis (hemps or weed) is one of the closest living relatives to roses, both being in the Rosales clade

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vPdGB TIL Fanny Longfellow, wife of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, died tragically after her dress caught on fire
VBdRQ TIL almost every elites in Atlanta boycotted event honoring MLK's Nobel Prize win. When Coca Cola threatened to move HQ away from Atlanta, 1200 people attended the event.
RQWQ TIL that in 1947 the US Military produced a film warning about how fascism takes hold in society
16n1d TIL that strong evidence points to a black hole at the center of our own, and most other galaxies.
A6Dx TIL that Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat to help combat illiteracy. 348 words were identified as being important to first-graders, which he was asked to narrow down to 250. Nine months later, Seuss used 236 of them to complete The Cat in the Hat