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TIL Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms

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YyPZ TIL If you are involuntarily bumped from your flight due to overbooking, you are legally eligible to receive compensation of 200% of one-way fare for a delay of 1 to 2 hours and 400% for a delay over 2 hours.
epxnJ TIL Approximately 10 percent of U.S. adults are classified as having obesity during the 1950s.In 2011 to 2012, however, the CDC reported approximately 35 percent of U.S. adults had obesity; the prevalence of obesity among American adults has more than tripled within the last six decades.
8aOEG TIL, if you were able to travel from the Earth to a distance of 8.3 BILLION Light Years, you would cross the Cosmic Point of No Return, where you would NEVER be able to make it back to Earth, even if you somehow traveled the speed of light.
YpjEG TIL one of the six flags in Six Flags is the Confederate flag
KmdJ TIL that a British sitcom called Dad’s Army, which was based around WWII, actually went on longer than the war itself.