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TIL a woman burnt down the 5th oldest tree on earth while smoking meth

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e0nwJ TIL that from 2013 to 2016, US physicians accepted $24.94 billion from pharmaceutical companies, in nearly 41 million transactions, and there is a searchable web database where you can find out if your doctor has accepted any payments, from whom, how much, and the nature of the payment.
bADQ TIL in 1998 Sony released a videocam that could see through clothes while in an infrared recording mode; 600,000 units were recalled.
OobR7 TIL about the Q400 Horizon Air Incident of 2018, during which a member of the ground crew stole a plane and performed an unauthorized takeoff.
kJZEg TIL that the Sultan of Morocco from 1672 to 1727 was Moulay Ismail. He had a harem of over 500 wives and concubines and fathered more than 800 children. He lived to be 81.
Y9W TIL that rapper, Chiddy Bang, broke the Guinness World Record for Longest Freestyle Rap as well as the Longest Marathon Rapping Record after freestyle rapping for 9 hours, 18 minutes and 22 seconds.