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TIL: Flowers didn’t exist until dinosaurs and mammals were already roaming the earth.

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KO8L9 TIL in Dante's Inferno the center of Hell is depicted as a frozen lake made of Satan's tears
ZrpQ TIL DC police officer William West warned Ulysses S Grant, the sitting President of the United States at the time, about recklessly driving his horse-drawn carriage. The next day West saw Grant driving in the same manner and placed the POTUS under arrest. (Washington Post, NOV 7 1925)
5ERD TIL Trajan was the first and only Roman emperor to set foot on the shores of the Persian Gulf.
WkYv8 TIL humans domesticated dogs before we domesticated potatoes
9l0M TIL that, after Harry Houdini piloted the first airplane over the skies of Australia, he proclaimed that the world may forget his performances as an escape artist, but they would never forget he was the first person to fly a plane in Australia.