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TIL a tree was planted in memory of Beatle George Harrison in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park — and died after a beetle infestation.

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nWoNb TIL: There is a Japanese martial art of combative swimming called Suijutsu. Various styles existed such as the Iwakura Ryū which has techniques for unusual situations such as eating while in water and many schools taught methods of swimming in armor.
m1NNp TIL Donald Mastick accidentally tasted Plutonium and was banned from lab work. Despite this, he earned a physics PhD, started a highly successful interior landscape company, raised a family, and died of natural causes, all with few micrograms of Plutonium in his body.
nePpY TIL American President Franklin D. Roosevelt (aka FDR) became the first and only President to serve four terms.
loKoG TIL: Hebrew was a dead language for about 1400 years, surviving only in written form. In the 1880s, Jewish linguists attempted to revive it, standardizing and developing Hebrew as a spoken language. Today, it has over 5 million native speakers.
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