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If the dinosaurs hadn’t been wiped out in a mass extinction 66 million years ago, the world would look very different today…

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W7NKB TIL that wizards who ride dragons, control the weather, and go to a secret wizard school are a thing in Romanian folklore
nW7wd TIL that micro plastics are now everywhere in our body, including lungs, brain and blood. We consume on average a credit card worth of plastic every week. Also, thousands of chemicals generated by plastics and packaging industry are not studied yet
pQgp TIL: That the Ring Binder and Hole punch were invented by the same person in the same year. German Friedrich Soennecken in 1886.
yXJM TIL that Conan O'Brien has majored in history and literature, graduated with a magna cum laude from Harvard University, and wrote his senior thesis on the use of children as symbols in the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor
mxQBv TIL November 14, 1910 Eugene Ely made the first airplane takeoff from a warship in a Curtiss pusher airplane from the cruiser USS Birmingham at Hampton Roads, VA. Ely later completes the first landing and takeoff from a ship in 1911. His flights marked the beginning of carrier aviation.