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TIL that the saguaro cactus can live over 200 years, and does not grow its first branch until it is 50-70 years old.

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7rygL TIL of Fang Zheng, whose legs were run over by a tank during the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 while he was getting a fainted female student to safety. She refused to testify for him during the investigations and she would later claim that she was not with him during the incident.
X0agE TIL of the Fighting Fireman Terry Marsh an undefeated British boxer, who not only won all of his fights in the ring, but was then acquitted of shooting his former manager Frank Warren as well.
bAr4 TIL A volcanic eruption in Indonisia in 1815 temporarily altered the Earth’s climate resulting in many parts of the US Northeast accumulating 6 inches of snow from June 6th-7th the following year
bNGa TIL Einstein wasn’t an atheist but believed in the God of Spinoza
KYXPR TIL that the Olympic Torch Relay was invented by Nazi Germany as a propaganda tool.