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TIL that in 1973, a drunk driver struck and killed the world’s most isolated tree, in the middle of the Sahara desert

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9EMX TIL the man who tried to stop John Wilkes Booth from killing Lincoln, Henry Rathbone, went all “Shining” on his family and killed his wife and attempted to kill his children in a fit of rage.
WkwlL TIL the female backing volalist on the Rolling Stone's "Gimme Shelter", Merry Clayton, was pregnant when summoned to the recording studio late at night, and suffered a miscarriage a few hours after strenously singing the famous line "Rape, murder! It's just a shot away! It's just a shot away!"
7AYx TIL in 1983, a small town in Missouri was permanently evacuated when high levels of dioxin were discovered in soil samples. It was discovered that a man hired to oil the dirt roads to keep dust down had used waste from a company making Agent Orange.
JAb8 TIL the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana, the longest continuous bridge passing over water, is so long that for 8 of its 24 miles, you can’t see land in any direction.
VMBxk TIL that in 2013, Star Wars was dubbed in Navajo, making it the first major film to be dubbed in a Native American language