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TIL: Despite thinking of ourselves as the masters of the planet, the average Hurricane releases energy equivalent of our largest ever nuclear bomb every 60 minutes and produces 5 times the energy the entire human race uses in a year.

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b6rV9 TIL while most Woolly Mammoth populations died out 14,000 to 10,000 years ago, the last population survived on Wrangell Island up until 4000 years ago, as the Pyramids were being built.
9wQym TIL a Volcano Snail with a shell of Iron is a real thing
KOZZ6 TIL that until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act passed in the US in 1974 - Banks required single, widowed or divorced women to bring a man along to cosign any credit application, regardless of their income
BLQe TIL that Montpelier, VT is the only US state capital with no McDonald’s
mxdZM TIL that during a NASA auction in 1976, an intern called G. George bought 218$ worth of film roll. It turns out that they were original videotape recordings of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Sotheby's has since resold it for about 1.8 million dollars.