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TIL The oldest animal ever discovered was killed by researchers trying to figure out how old it was

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kJByd TIL the Mediterranean Sea went into a cycle of partial or near complete drying-up from 5.96 to 5.33 million years ago, when the precursor of the Strait of Gibraltar closed off sealing the Sea off from the Atlantic Ocean. The period ended with a flood when the Atlantic reclaimed the basin.
4XgbR TIL there is a man (Ioannis Ikonomou) in the European Commission who works as a translator and can speak 47 languages, including 21 of the 24 EU official languages. He can also speak dead languages like Old Church Slavic
KAM6 TIL: In Old English, males were referred to as, “wer” and the word, “man” meant strictly humankind.
8awba TIL About Buffalo City, NC. The once tight knit logging boomtown and “moonshine capital” was visited by FDR on a trip to Roanoke. Built in the middle of nowhere, they relied on alcohol-tourism during the 1920s & 30s, “mysteriously” turning ghost town after prohibition ended.
1a9Er TIL that the film Eurotrip was filmed entirely in Prague, Czech Republic. (Scenes in the US were at the International School of Prague; the Paris railway station was actually Prague railway station; Vatican City was actually Prague's National Museum)