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TIL the Big Bang theory was discovered by a Catholic Priest

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NXkDP TIL that the world’s oldest known living organism is a grove of quaking aspen trees in Utah named "Pando." It’s estimated to be over 80,000 years old and weighs around 6,000 tons.
0wppv TIL a 2011 study from UC Berkeley found that Mercedes and BMW drivers were nearly 5 times as likely to cut others off compared to drivers in non-luxury cars.
mxOgE TIL cocktails became popular during Prohibition as juices were added to bootleg liquor to disguise the taste of ingredients like dead rat and wood tar
1YM7 TIL About a man, Bradley Birkenfeld, who was jailed for 40 months then, upon release from prison, received the largest whistleblower award in History of $104,000,000 USD
bwpa TIL the most typical human on the planet is now a Han Chinese man who speaks Mandarin and has neither a car nor a bank account.